GIBSON DESIGN+BUILDARCHITECT | BUILDER

The method

From first sketch to last punch list.

Most houses pass from an architect who never builds to a contractor who never drew them. This studio holds both licenses so the drawing and the jobsite belong to the same person.

River Oaks Estates IRiver Oaks Estates IITreasure Isle LakehouseLake Vista II

  1. 01

    Walk the lot

    We meet on site. Existing house, empty lot, or a photograph you can’t put down. We talk about how you live and what the budget can hold.

  2. 02

    Schematic

    Plan, massing, light. Axes that separate public from private. The first drawings are about how the house sits on the land and how a family moves through it — not finishes.

  3. 03

    Development

    Materials, millwork, windows, and the budget in the same conversation. Because I build what I draw, the details are ones we can actually make — barn doors, custom hoods, zero-step showers, a stair that earns its atrium.

  4. 04

    Documents + permit

    Construction drawings, structural coordination, and the city. Residential GC and architect under one roof means the permit set is the same set we build from. No handoff, no translation loss.

  5. 05

    Build

    The jobsite is mine. Subcontractors I trust. Decisions that used to bounce between architect and contractor get made in the morning, on the slab. Design intent survives because the person who drew it is still there.

  6. 06

    Punch and after

    Walkthrough, punch list, keys. A house should feel finished, not abandoned.