The Brown Studio is an architectural and interior Design + Build firm born and raised in the surf community of Encinitas, California. Since its founding in 2006 by husband and wife team Lindsay and Rory Brown, the company has delivered over 200 projects and expanded its practice to specialize in custom residential and commercial projects spanning Coastal, Urban Renewal and Alpine Modern genres. The firm’s deep technical expertise, experience and never-ending curiosity and attention to detail blend to deliver truly extraordinary places and experiences.
The Brown Studio is deeply rooted in a holistic approach to design. From concept to completion, we help our clients by interpreting their needs, creating a vision and curating creative solutions to deliver on their dreams. Our collective experience across the full spectrum of the build process through associated companies Brown Bag Builders, SOTA Supply and our partnership with Swell Properties enables us to pool our interdisciplinary expertise to our clients’ benefit – saving them time, stress, money and ultimately delivering a more thoughtful and creative design.
With major projects spanning ‘Coast’ to ‘Slopes’ the company understands the local building requirements, design needs and culture, and is dedicated to delivering projects that truly improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities they operate in through good design.
LINDSAY BROWN
Lindsay challenges each project to expose its true functional potential while materializing the essence of the client, occupants and environment. Working throughout the Western United States, Lindsay has developed a style of architecture that has gained appreciation for its sensitive use of form, material, technology, light, space, and landscape.
The result of his design process ensures that clients, stakeholders and approval agencies have carefully considered design solutions articulated in the industries most advanced digital modeling software. His strength in high-end custom residential project types provides a unique creativity during the design phases and a relentless dedication during construction as the Clients Representative.
Lindsay received his Bachelors of Architecture degree from the University of Oklahoma. Post degree, he began teaching for University of California San Diego Extension courses focused in 3D design technology. Lindsay also worked full time as a Senior Designer / Project Manager along side the highly regarded residential architectural designer, Wallace E. Cunningham.
Since 2007, Lindsay has been the Principal and Owner of The Brown Studio, Inc., a Design + Build firm focusing on hand crafted custom architectural projects.
RORY BROWN
Rory graduated with an Environmental Study’s degree from UC Santa Cruz and has focused her passion for space planning and interior design as the studio’s leading force behind defining an appropriate modern interior environment for each project. Rory’s aesthetic appreciation was inherited from her family history in the highly textural and dramatically expressive nature of the Hollywood theater and film industry.
Rory Brown runs the Interior Design half of The Brown Studio. Her team devotes their time to researching innovative yet deeply classic finishes, creating an overall spatial narrative designing timeless spaces and details. Rory’s sharp focus to the human scale, highly detailed elements of each space, can be felt. Often working, and iterating through designs until they are “just right,” Rory dedicates herself wholeheartedly to the art of design. Her creations marry and converse seamlessly to the larger scale architectural volumes they sit within.
