Résumé

Designer, Munkenbeck and Marshall, Architects, London, England. 1989-1992.

Project Architect / Project Manager, Mack Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1997-1999.

Partner, Standard Architecture | Design, Los Angeles, CA, 01/1996- . Allsbrook formed Standard Architecture in 1996 with Silvia Kuhle. In 2024, Standard Architecture had its office at 4411 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90029. The firm focused on the design of retail spaces, commercial design, single-family houses, art galleries, hospitality projects, furniture and landscape.

Teaching

Lecturer, University of Southern California (USC), School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. 08/1999-2009.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Los Angeles Chapter.

Certified LEED AP, 03/2009.

Registered Architect in the States of CA, ID, IL, IN, NV, NJ, NY, and WA, as of 2025.

NCARB certfied, ID #70381.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 2024.

High School / College

Graduate, Beavercreek High School, Beavercreek, OH, 1981-1984.

B.Arch., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1984-1989.

M.Arch., Southern California Institute of Architects (SCI-Arc), Santa Monica, CA, and Marina del Rey, CA, 1991-1995.

Coursework, guest student, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1992-1993.

Relocation

Born in OH, Allsbrook lived in San Pedro, CA, in 1970, while his father worked for the US Air Force in CA. Jeffrey later attended Beavercreek High School in Beavercreek, OH, a town about 9 miles southeast of Dayton. Since the days of the Wright Brothers, Dayton has been the foremost aeronautrical engineering hub in the US. During World War I, the Dayton area became home to three military flight centers: McCook Field, WIlbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. The two latter installations formed a portion of the acreage assigned to what would become the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948, a major training, development and intelligence center for the AIr Force. (See History Office, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.mil, "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: The First Century," [Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH: Air Force Materiel Command, 2015], pp. 1-18.)

Allsbrook spent approximately five years living in Columbus, OH, while attending The Ohio State University.

As noted by the architect himself, Allsbrook "...moved to Europe in 1989 and didn’t return to the US until 1993." (See email from Jeffrey Allsbrook to the author, 05/27/2025. The architect made several corrections to errors listed in the record. Thank you to him for these alterations.) He worked forMunkenbeck and Marshall, Architects, in London, England, after graduating from undergraduate school. Subsequently, he spent a portion of 1992-1993 in Frankfurt, Germany, attending the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste.

He began graduate school in Los Angeles at SCI-Arc in 1991, went to Europe for work and study and returned to the Southern CA likely by 1993 or 1994.

Parents

His parents were John Wilson Allsbrook, Jr., (born 08/08/1938 in Norfolk, VA) and Ruth Ann Petrie (born 01/03/1942 in Winchester, VA-d. 10/13/2018 in Glendale, CA). His parents wed on 07/20/1963 in Charlottesville, VA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014; Roll: 101144191, accessed 03/21/2024.) Ruth worked as a nurse early in her adult life, but chose to remain at home once her four children were born.

In 1970, his father worked for the US Air Force's Space and Missile Sytems Organization (SAMSO) as a propulsion system project officer for the standard launch vehicles office in Los Angeles, CA. His father attended the University of VIrginia graduating with a B.S. in aeronautical engineering. (See "San Pedran wins incentive bonus," San Pedro News-Pilot, 11/09/1970, p.3.) John Allsbrook was a Captain in the US Air Force in 1970 and a Colonel by 1987. Hw worked for the US Air Force Space Division in the latter year. (See "Engineers probe rocket wreckage," Sacramento Bee, 03/28/1987, p. A16.)