Gillespie Butte

Architecture & Design — Eugene, Oregon

Homes built around the way you live.

Custom homes, ADUs, and additions across Eugene and the Willamette Valley — designed one honest conversation at a time.

Andy Drake, licensed architect
The Architect

Andy Drake

The person who designs your home should be the one who picks up the phone.

I’m Andy Drake — licensed architect, former interior designer, full-time Oregonian. I run a one-person practice because I believe the person who designs your home should also be the person who picks up the phone. Fifteen years of building things in the Willamette Valley has taught me that the best projects start with a cup of coffee and an honest conversation about how you actually want to live.

More about Andy

A house becomes a home when the architecture gets out of the way of the life inside it.

Practice

Four ways we work.

Custom homes, accessory dwellings, remodels, and commercial work — one architect across all of them.

Selected work

Gillespie Butte
01
New Construction · 2026

Gillespie Butte

A spec home on the south hills that we designed like someone already lived there.

Jaffe ADU
02
Accessory Dwelling · 2021

Jaffe ADU

Her parents needed to be close. Not in the house — but close.

Clearwater Cabin
03
ADU / Cabin · 2025

Clearwater Cabin

A cabin in the backyard. Not a shed with insulation — a proper cabin.

Domino ADU
04
Pre-Approved · 2024

Domino ADU

Pre-approved by the city. Ready to build tomorrow. Yours to customize.

How it works

  1. 01
    Coffee.We meet. You talk. I listen. No pitch deck.
  2. 02
    Paper.Sketches before screens. It’s faster and more honest.
  3. 03
    The conversation.We go back and forth until it feels right. Not one round of revisions — a real dialogue.
  4. 04
    Construction.I stay involved. Not as a formality — because details matter and things go wrong without someone paying attention.
Domino ADU
Pre-approved · City of Eugene

The Domino ADU

Every year, someone calls me wanting an ADU and I tell them it’ll take 8 months just to get through permitting. So I went to the city and got one pre-approved. The Domino exists so you can skip the line. Three configurations, one phone call.

Learn about the Domino
Design Studio

See it before it’s built.

Our interactive studio sketches your project in real time — watercolor, materials, and light. Answer a few questions and leave with a vision board to keep.

Enter the design studio
An evening rendering of a Drake Architecture home

Every great home starts with a conversation.

Tell me about your project — no commitment, just possibilities.

Prefer to call? (541) 510-4238 — I return every call.

Let's talk