Chava Danielson, AIA is Principal of DSH // architecture, a practice with a portfolio of award-winning projects ranging from tactile, light-infused and materially rich environments to those that foreground architecture's responsibility to urban communities.Danielson leads DSH's civic and child-centered work, including early education centers in which alternatives to conventional practices are employed to spark curiosity and wonder in the minds of young children. She focuses on imparting beauty and sensitive programming to recharge underserved neighborhoods through educational, therapeutic and residential projects for non-profits committed to the community. With Larchmont Charter High School, the inventive adaptive reuse of an architecturally significant office building catalyzed neighborhood revitalization, while also continuing DSH's forward-looking approach to historic preservation established with the seminal rehabilitation of Rudolph Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments.Danielson is currently Vice-President / President-elect of the Board of Directors of the AIA Los Angeles Chapter, and as Co-Chair of the Government Outreach Committee with AIA/LA. She has served as a Director for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and was a founding board member of the Larchmont Charter Schools. She is an Adjunct Professor, teaching Design at the USC School of Architecture; was Adjunct Professor at Otis College of Art and Design, teaching both architectural design studios and courses in urban history and theory. In addition, she has taught design at Woodbury University, Cal Poly Pomona and at USC's Price School in the Executive Master of Urban Planning program.