The Sole Architect
A residential architect with seven completed houses on the website and a waiting list of nineteen. The drawings are the whole point.
March 6, 2026
She practices alone, with an associate who comes in two days a week. She does residential — three to four houses on the boards at any time, each running about eighteen months. The waiting list is currently nineteen names.
The website is seven completed houses. Each house has its own page: a site plan, a floor plan, six interior photographs, one exterior photograph at dusk, and a paragraph of around 180 words. The paragraph is written by the client.
Why the client writes
The architect found, after the first three houses, that her own descriptions of the work read as architectural prose — restrained, accurate, and (to most readers) impenetrable. Clients write differently. They write about the morning light in the kitchen, the way the garden room changed the texture of family dinners, the specific argument they had at design stage about a wall that, in the end, did not get built.
That register is what visitors who become future clients are looking for. The drawings show competence. The client paragraphs show that competence applied to a life.
What is omitted
There is no services list. No "design phases" diagram. No fee structure. No testimonials section — the client paragraphs do that work in the body of the project pages, where the work is, instead of in a column at the bottom of the home page.
The contact page is one email link and the studio address. The studio takes new inquiries by appointment only; the waiting list is publicly stated. The site has not changed materially in three years and shows no sign of needing to.