STUDIO
Drew Shawver Architecture + Design was founded in 2022 with the intention of creating long-lasting and life-enhancing homes of all scales that connect clients to their place through crafted, materially tactile, and experientially rich design. We believe in creating homes that speak to the rituals of daily life, and the integration of dwelling with the site’s landscape, light and environment. We strive for design that is rooted in its place, and made uniquely for its inhabitants and their lives, with a strong reverence for local building tradition craft, and connection with the present time through a modern sense of space.
Each project comes from a process of meaningful collaboration with clients and craftspeople. We work to gain a strong understanding of each client’s unique personality and lifestyle, which in conjunction with an awareness and respect for the site, becomes the basis of design- a process of crafting a home unique to the landscape and those who will live there.
DREW SHAWVER, AIA
Drew Shawver grew up around agricultural landscapes dotted with vernacular structures of grain silos, barns and farmhouses in the rural Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He credits this background for his deep appreciation of the beauty in modest, functional design that inspires. Drew continues to find wonder and excitement in the architecture of the everyday, an attitude he strives to bring to his work through warm materiality, rich yet subtle detailing and honest simplicity. Drew looks to create multi-layered buildings and places that emerge through a pure expression of place.
Drew brings over a fifteen years of experience of working on regionally modern architecture and design. He has contributed to numerous award-winning residential works – past projects have received National AIA Residential and Small Project Awards, Honor and Merit Awards from the AIA Northwest & Pacific Region, an AIA Seattle Honor Award, and the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award. The Little House project, completed at MW Works Architecture in 2015, was referred to by Juhanni Palasmaa in his AIA juror comments as “the Walden Hut for the new millennium.” He has worked at some of North America’s most respected and sought-after architecture firms, including MW Works, Studio DIAA, and and Olson-Kundig Architects in Seattle, and Shim-Sutliffe Architects in Toronto.