About

You Are Exceptional And Unique. Your Space Should Be Too.

My process fuses design thinking from product design and architecture to makes spaces that feel and function effortlessly. With this, each design breathes life into its location and can grow with you. I custom-tailor the scope of architectural services to respond to your needs, vision, and long term goals. Call me when you want to be excited, inspired, and brave about investing in your future!

Genevieve Marsh, BFA + BArch

Design Director, Founder

Genevieve Marsh is our Design Director with a specialty in social activism and community-centric design. She has assisted a variety of social missions (social justice, climate change, urban revitalization) to connect to the built environment through research-based placemaking.

Whether she’s leading a town masterplan update or designing a dream home, she works with the whole picture to craft a fulfilling and enjoyable client experience. She brings a healthy dose of both creative and analytical ways of developing a project, blending experience-centric design with analytics and costing to provide greater visibility and security for her clients.

Genevieve received both her Bachelors of Architecture and Bachelors of Fine Art, Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. She graduated top of her class, distinguished by the AIA Henry Adams Medal. Select projects have won the AIAri Merit Award, AIAri Peoples Choice, ACSA Collaborative Practice Award and an honorable mention from the dbXchange Award. She proudly bases her business in her hometown of Auburn, CA.

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The Group

We set projects up for success through our trusted network of professionals that cover all steps of a project.

Xinru Liu, MDes + BArch

Design Director

Xinru Liu brings an urban and international perspective to our Design Studio, where she directs building design and research initiatives. She brings her background in art and research to her projects, creating highly tuned minimal-modern spaces with exquisite detail. She honed her craft at award-winning boutique architecture firms in New York and Beijing. Xinru received her Master of Design Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design and her Bachelors of Architecture and Fine Art from Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout her academic career and beyond, she maintains a rigorous volunteer schedule for various causes such as housing and food access. She currently teaches freshman architecture students at Boston Architectural College on zoom. She based in Auburn, CA, where she is working on a larger scholarly project analyzing the hybridization of rural and urban environments along the i-80 corridor. We are so lucky to have her.

Certifications & Specialty Reports

Successfully permitting a project is a team effort. Even a small construction project like a backyard cottage requires several disciplines to certify the design. Our trusted relationships with engineers, geologists, biologists, surveyors, CalGreen certifiers, and Title 24 analysts simplify and speed up this process for you.

Additionally, Genevieve is TI PASS certified. This credential reduces permitting time for tenant improvements by up to 75% across 18 jurisdictions in the region.

Construction & Fabrication

We strive for beautiful, durable projects finished on time and on budget. We work to match the scope and ethos of each project with the right general contractor, specialty fabricator, or artisan.

We design custom architectural pieces, both functional or artistic, and can also recommend regional artists.

Additionally, we support regional artists in interfacing with art consultants and development teams. We produce high-quality renderings, presentation materials, digital fabrication drawings, and drafted plans of sculptures.

Financial Modeling

Jack Tucker is our Business Director with a passion for forging relationships between funding, construction, and design. He graduated from the University of Nevada, School of Business and has worked in lending, brokering, property accounting, and private equity. His experience helps our clients connect the dots between design, investment cost and return, whether it’s expanding a family business or finding profitability in smart growth development projects.

Let’s talk [email protected].

Certifications & Specialty Reports

Additionally, Genevieve is TI PASS certified. This credential reduces permitting time for tenant improvements by up to 75% across 18 jurisdictions in the region.

Construction & Fabrication

We strive for beautiful, durable projects finished on time and on budget. We work to match the scope and ethos of each project with the right general contractor, specialty fabricator, or artisan.

We design custom architectural pieces, both functional or artistic, and can also recommend regional artists.

‘Herstory’

When I went to study architecture and fine art at Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, my eyes were opened to how design enlivens and connects people through altering places and systems. I began to learn the art form for making “Wow!” spaces, engaging the community generously and meaningfully. I gravitated towards social mission projects and classes– they demanded an agile architectural approach and pushed the frontier of digital tech and computer-aided manufacturing to make it so. With brilliant architects and artists as my critics and teachers, I took artistic risks that respond holistically to the briefs and made them buildable and practical.

My favorite classes had nonprofit clients seeking to rethink their footprint on the ground. Through working with them, I felt inspired in 2014 to co-found DMATER, a design studio, to investigate what social enterprise clients were struggling to navigate– the mashup web of digital technologies, environments, and culture. Over several years, this investigation took me to Italy, Los Angeles, and Australia to test my process of research-based placemaking in various cultural contexts. In 2018, I relocated my globe trotting design studio to my hometown of Auburn, CA. Now I work with a range of organizations empowering them to play a bigger game, fulfill their potential and build the lifestyle they want for themselves and their community.

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