Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses

McLeod Bovell is a collaborative design partnership focused on complete residential design. Founded in 2008, our firm has since grown to include a group of 17 designers with diverse backgrounds. The work embraces intrinsic social, spatial, and environmental opportunities as generators for invention.

We have particular experience designing houses on steep and irregularly-shaped topographies endemic to our part of the world. While these areas may benefit from significant views, their immediate natural features may not always be remarkable: neither fully cultivated nor untouched wilderness. Our work makes efforts to balance the demands of the prospect with design opportunities afforded by unusual topography, allowing for varied and specific programmatic sequences. This approach results in houses with unexpected relationships at different scales of living, connecting inhabitants to their surroundings.

We work to understand the substantive elements of our client’s nature and desires. Sometimes this is articulated, but often what is not said is most important. Through a continuous dialog we establish a framework for design decision-making where ideas evolve from this investigation rather than out of pre-conceived, prescriptive solutions. Spatial experiences and idiosyncrasies are prioritized in an effort to create work that conveys feeling, specific character, and is receptive to influences beyond our region.