Watercolor rendering of a finished Drake Architecture home — a stone-and-shingle house with a covered porch and terraced garden in the Willamette Valley
The Process

How it works

One architect, from the first cup of coffee to the last site visit. No account managers, no handoffs — here is what working together actually feels like.

  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.

That’s the whole method.

Start with a coffee