People before projects. Process before promises.
Halvard & Wren is a small, architect-led studio. We keep our roster short on purpose — every commission gets the same principals from first sketch to final walkthrough.
Halvard & Wren started as a two-person drafting table above a hardware store, taking on the commissions larger firms considered too small to matter. Seventeen years later the table is bigger, but the instinct hasn't changed: every house still starts as a conversation about the site, not a catalogue of finishes.
We're a design-build studio, which means the people who draw your home are the same people who walk it with the builder every week until it's finished. Nothing gets handed off, translated, or reinterpreted along the way — the plans you approve are the house you get.
We take on a small number of projects a year, by choice. It's the only way we know to give a house the attention a good building actually needs.
A small team, on every project, start to finish.
Leads design from first site visit. Twenty-two years drawing houses that answer to their land before they answer to a brief.
Runs the studio's documentation and materials work. The person clients call when a detail needs to be exactly right.
Manages construction administration and weekly site review — the link between drawing set and finished framing.
Keeps every commission on schedule and every client informed, from first inquiry through final walkthrough.
Three things we won't compromise on.
One team, whole project
The architect who designs your home is the architect who signs off on it at the end. No hand-offs between design and construction phases.
Drawings before decisions
Every material, budget, and schedule conversation happens against a fully resolved drawing set — never a sketch or an assumption.
A small number of projects
We limit our yearly commissions so principals stay personally involved in every one, from site visit to final walkthrough.