Jonathan J. McKim, Architect (JJMA) is a sole proprietorship founded in July of 2009.  The firm practices from a small office in the Financial District of San Francisco where Jonathan, the founder is a registered architect, high-rise facade inspector, adapter of AI, and an architectural theorist.  Influenced by the likes of Louis I. Khan and inspired by a James Wine (SITE) lecture that he attended in the early 1990s, Jonathan has long sought to blur the lines between landscape and building, and feels that given the right conditions, a work of architecture shouldn’t make a distinction between the two.  

His work encompasses public school buildings, civil, mixed-use, multi-family housing, data centers, government facilities, labs, golf course clubhouses, and luxury custom homes.  However, Jonathan, who lost his home during the Great Recession and ended up living in his car, has a deep commitment to affordable housing, including using micro ADUs, micro/starter home master planned communities, and micro apartment complexes as a means of solving California’s housing crisis.  To this end, he is currently seeking a partnership with an overseas developer to bring their unique brand of high-rise micro apartment buildings to San Francisco.     

Image: LGBTQ+ History Museum proposal, San Francisco, CA.