Practice areas
Three lanes. Carried by three partners.
We don’t take on hospital work, or mid-rise commercial, or any project that needs a 30-person studio to staff. The slate stays at residential, civic, and small commercial because that’s where our drawings hold up best.
Where to start
Three doors. Pick the one closest to your project.
Each practice area has a partner who carries it from first sketch to certificate of occupancy. The intake call routes by the building type, not the rotation.
What we won’t take
Honest about the fit.
We’ve turned down work that would have paid well because the studio isn’t built for it. The list below is the one we share with referrals so nobody wastes a phone call.
- Hospital + healthcareCode complexity past what three partners can carry credibly.
- Mid-rise residentialAnything above four stories — we don’t staff to it.
- Greenfield commercialStrip mall or pad-site work. Not what our drawings are best at.
- Kitchen-only remodelsYou want a designer, not an architect. We can recommend two.
- Anything we can’t site-walkOut-of-state work over an hour from a regional airport.
Fees, plain
How the studio gets paid.
Hourly through schematic design, fixed fee for design development and construction documents, hourly through construction administration. Monthly invoices with a time log on every project. No surprises at the end.
“On most projects the fixed-fee phase lands between 8 and 12 percent of the construction cost. We tell owners that number in the first meeting, before a contract gets drafted.” From the studio’s standard engagement letter