If you are looking for a home designed to fit your lifestyle and your interests, to be an accurate expression of you, contact me.

I tend to blur the lines between art and architecture. I love the process of interpreting client styles, memories, and interests into architecture. Regardless of what stylistic approach the design inhabits, at first glance, it should have the visual appearance of being correct. This visual correctness is the first step to timeless architecture. The measure for me is when a passerby’s glance becomes fixed, and a smile begins to form. Good architecture invokes forth positive emotions.

Below you will see random images of some of my work and periodic text helping to define for you my approach.

As a designer, my role is as a contextualist. I work to gather all the information, yours and the sites, and distill it down into a building that houses your spaces, feelings, forms, and flow patterns and all the while challenging the status quo into making a positive and meaningful contribution to the environment.

I have a reputation for intuitively understanding the desires of my clients. However, it is an effect of my process of client exploration that allows for this insight, along with intentional observation and engaged listening.

Refined architecture shouldn’t be afforded exclusively to the rich. Samuel Mockbee believed that those involved with architectural design have an ethical responsibility to help improve the living conditions of the poor and that those in the field should be sowing a moral sense of service to the community. In a commitment to a democratic, egalitarian spirit, I welcome all design opportunities.

John Ruskin said “a good building must do two things, firstly it must shelter us; secondly it must speak to us…  it must speak to us of all the things that we think are most important, that we need reminding of today.”  This is achievable no matter what your context or status. Bridging this connection between the design and the client is a measure of a good listener, translator, and designer.

I have found, bringing the intention of design on paper to life can be difficult when handed off to a third party construction company.  For this reason I prefer to build what I design.  If you would like to discuss your project with me, contact me at 317-966-1430 or steve@blissworks.biz.