Insights is where we share what we’ve learned from decades of designing custom homes, in mountain valleys, urban neighborhoods, and landscapes that demand thoughtful response.
For those considering building or renovating, this is a place to begin.
We speak honestly about renovation versus new construction, the realities behind custom home costs, zoning constraints, and the quiet forces of site that shape what is possible. We also open the door to our process, where a project begins with a hand sketch, evolves through layered trace, and is tested in physical models that explore massing, light, and proportion. Making and drawing are not steps toward the design; they are the design.
Above all, this collection reflects our belief that architecture should feel inevitable, rooted in place, supportive of daily life, and timeless in its clarity. From early feasibility conversations to long-term performance, these insights are meant to bring confidence and alignment to the journey ahead.
Only for you. Only in this place.
Architecture often celebrates openness to the landscape. Expansive glazing dissolves the boundary between interior and exterior, allowing light and scenery to fill the space. In places like Boulder, where the surrounding terrain is both dramatic and constantly changing, this immersive relationship to nature can be powerful.
But openness is only one way architecture can engage the landscape.
Designing a modern home in Boulder requires more than a strong aesthetic vision. The city’s foothill landscape, high-altitude climate, and dramatic seasonal shifts create a unique set of opportunities and constraints for residential architecture. At Studio B Architecture + Interiors, every project begins with a careful understanding of how light, landscape, and climate shape the experience of a home.
Modern residential architecture in Boulder often prioritizes openness, but openness must be balanced with orientation, solar exposure, and neighborhood context. The most successful homes feel simultaneously grounded in their surroundings and expansive in their connection to the outdoors.
At Studio B, interiors are not layered on at the end. They are shaped with the same rigor, restraint, and intention as the spaces themselves. Our interior design department works from the inside out, considering proportion, materiality, light, and how furnishings quietly define the experience of living well.
Furnishings are never an afterthought. They complete the architecture.
Every project moves through a series of carefully structured phases that guide an idea from early conversations to a completed home. While each project is unique, this framework ensures thoughtful decision-making, coordination, and clarity at every step.
At Studio B Architecture + Interiors, our passion for modernism, innovative processes, and a sense of adventure allow the very best ideas to incubate and thrive. Model-making is at the heart of this dynamic environment, where high-energy, focused teams engage in weekly pinups, rigorous research, and collaboration with clients and peers to push the boundaries of design.
Winter has a way of stripping architecture down to its essence. Color recedes, textures quiet, and light becomes the primary storyteller. In snow, form and proportion sharpen, details surface, and the relationship between building and landscape is revealed with uncommon clarity. For Studio B Architecture + Interiors, winter photography isn’t a limitation, it’s an opportunity to see our work at its most distilled.
Capturing architecture in these conditions requires a particular sensitivity to light, timing, and restraint. It’s why we continue to collaborate with photographer James Florio, whose exceptional talent lies in finding nuance within restraint. His images reveal how a project performs not only across seasons, but across moments, morning hush, falling snow, the glow of evening against a darkened sky.
Travel has always been a quiet but powerful teacher in architectural practice. Stepping into unfamiliar places, encountering buildings in their true context, and experiencing how architecture lives within landscape and culture all deepen how we think about design.
Together, these travels reflect how architecture is best understood through experience. Whether monumental or modest, planned or serendipitous, each encounter reinforced why we travel: to see, to learn, and to return to the studio with a deeper understanding of how thoughtful design shapes the world.
Our 2025 holiday card began with a single line.
Drawn by Senior Project Architect Mike Folwell, the sketch featured on the card isn’t just seasonal artwork, it’s a window into how ideas take shape inside Studio B. Before materials, before models, before constraints or coordination, we begin with pencil and paper. It’s where architecture is stripped back to its essence: space, proportion, light, and intention.