For 30 years, Arch11 has brought award-winning architecture to life throughout North America and beyond. Its designs are artful, innovative, and human-centered. At each project’s core are the principles of contextual design: the drive to create a home that is of its place. In other words, creating something that is not only functional, but functions in the manner that best suits how people live.
In a custom home, you can imagine how valuable this approach to design becomes. Couple with Arch11’s focused interest in blending place into the spaces it creates, the firm consistently crafts structures that inspire, endure, and elevate the human experience.
Arch 11 Expands to Charlotte NC
Founded in Colorado, the architecture studio has extended its expertise into North Carolina under the leadership of Principal Matt Rouse. With over 20 years of experience accrued at firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, Rouse has designed projects ranging from high-end residential and multi-family projects as well as museums, schools, headquarters, and historic adaptive reuse projects. He has deep personal ties to the Tar Heel state: his wedding was in the Blue Ridge, and he carries an affinity for western North Carolina’s unique vistas and layered topography.
“Arch11’s work in the region reflects a natural extension of our longstanding belief that architecture begins with the land itself,” says Rouse. “North Carolina offers a rich and varied canvas that resonates deeply with our commitment to contextual design.”
The subtleties of light, climate, history, and landscape from the sandy shores of the Atlantic to the peaks of the Smokies offer the perfect canvas. In return, the studio brings to the area an expertise in climate-responsive, sustainable design. Rooted in the rugged Mountain West, Arch11 is adept at integrating resilient design practices, leveraging local materials, maximizing energy efficiency, and designing for durability.
Partnering with Arch11 to design your dream home in North Carolina opens the door to an artful and intelligent approach to design that captures the deeply rooted relationship between architecture, people, and place. The result is a residence that is as tied to place as it is to the people who call it home.
