Steven Ehrlich joined the Peace Corps for two years after graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was the first architect sent to Marrakech, Morocco in 1969. Four more years of living, teaching, traveling and studying indigenous vernacular architecture in North and West Africa formed Steven's approach to design and continue to influence his work today. This formative period of Steven's education as an "architectural anthropologist" helped him understand connections between architecture and culture, people and place.

After this period of learning, Steven returned to the United States in 1977. It was Los Angeles that resonated with his soul. There he could continue his interior-exterior connection explorations within the context of a variety of public and private commissions with a variety of clientele.

Steven has sought to strengthen the connection between art and architecture. To that end, he has worked in collaboration with several notable artists such as Ed Moses, Miriam Wosk, Guy Dill and John Okulick.

Ehrlich has been a guest critic at USC, Harvard, Yale, and UCLA, and lectures extensively in the US and abroad.

Steven serves as the Design Principal for all of the firm's commissions.