Forty plus years. One phone number.

I've been working in the field of architecture since 1983 and have been running this firm under my own name for the past twenty years. In that time, nearly every project I've worked on has come from a client who hired me before, or from someone they sent my way.

What I've built

My portfolio is unusually broad for a firm this size, and that breadth is deliberate:

  • Retail — from single tenant improvements to large-scale shopping center development, pad subdivisions, anchor demising, and center repositioning

  • Multi-family — apartment and mixed-use residential, plus the residential clubhouses and amenity buildings that make a community feel finished

  • Churches and faith facilities — sanctuaries, fellowship and education wings, and phased expansion planning for growing congregations

  • Office, warehouse, and light industrial

Very few firms hold both large-scale retail and multi-family under one roof. That combination matters right now, when much of the best work is repositioning tired centers, carving oversized anchors into small-format suites, and finding residential density on underused parking. Those projects need one architect who understands both halves of the problem.

How I work

You work with me. Not an associate, not a rotating team. The person who sits in the first meeting is the person who draws the building and answers the phone during construction. For an owner who has been handed off before, that difference is worth a great deal.

I still design by hand. Every project starts with drawing — real drawings, on paper, in front of the client, when appropriate. It's faster than it sounds, it invites an honest conversation about what a project should actually be, and it produces buildings that were thought through rather than assembled from a library. Documentation is fully digital; the thinking starts with a pencil.

I scale to the project. Working lean keeps my overhead low and my fees competitive, and I bring in trusted contract staff when a project's schedule requires it. Clients get principal-level attention at a small-firm rate.

I'm easy to build with. Four decades of working alongside consultants, contractors, and building officials has taught me that the drawings are only part of the job. Projects go well when the people on them trust each other. I've built my practice on being someone contractors are glad to see at the pre-construction meeting.

Services

  • Site feasibility and yield studies

  • Conceptual and schematic design

  • Entitlement and design review presentations

  • Design development and construction documents

  • Permitting and jurisdictional coordination

  • Construction administration

  • Architect of Record services for out-of-region developers

  • Existing building assessment, as-builts, and repositioning studies

Where I work

I’m currently licensed in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Arizona, and NCARB certified, which allows me to add jurisdictions quickly when a project calls for it. I travel for work and enjoy it — some of my best projects have been in growing communities an hour or two drive from home or three states away.

Let's talk about your site

If you have a parcel you're considering, a center that isn't performing, or a building that needs to become something else, I'm glad to take a look. First conversations are free, and I'll tell you honestly what I think the site will hold.