Studio QLQ

Simplicity and Innovation at our Forefront

Custom Mountain Homes · California — Colorado

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We design homes that belong to their mountains — built of stone, timber, and light, shaped by the land they stand on.

QLQ is a two-person architecture studio practicing between the Sierra and the Rockies. We believe a house should sit quietly in its landscape: framing the ridgeline rather than blocking it, borrowing its materials from the ground beneath it, and opening every room to the natural world outside. Simple forms. Honest materials. Quiet innovation.

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Selected Residential Work
Hope Ranch Residence — rear elevation with stone, glass, and gabled forms
Residence — Coast & Foothill

Hope Ranch Residence

Santa Barbara, California

A four-year project on a five-acre site with mountains to the east and the water to the west. The 20,000 sq ft home is organized as a campus — main house, cabana, and ADU set among gardens, with every space woven into a tapestry of coastal views. Contemporary stone, stucco, and Santa Barbara sandstone bring it to life.

Elevated Sustainability residence nestled among pines at dusk
Residence — Alpine

Elevated Sustainability

Mountain Residence

A high-end residence designed to minimize its carbon footprint at the doorstep of a natural sanctuary. Nestled in nature without obscuring the mountains, the form follows the land — a shed roof, passive house principles, and nearly 300 days of sunlight shaping every view outward.

Mesa Ridge Sky View model home at dusk
Collection — High Desert

Mesa Ridge — Sky View

Las Vegas, Nevada

A collection of two-story luxury homes from 3,000 to 5,000 sq ft. Contemporary architecture expressed through horizontal forms and natural materials — wide overhangs, stone and tile plane breaks, and open plans that give each home individual expression against the mesa horizon.

Base 45 townhomes street view at dusk
Townhomes — Wasatch Front

Base 45

Holladay, Utah

Thirty-two homes across five buildings at the base of the Wasatch. The design mixes urban industrial and modern farmhouse into a unique prototype — medium-density living that respects its single-family neighbors while negotiating the topography of a true mountain-town site.

The Studio

Brian Rivera

California

Practicing along California's coast and foothills, Brian leads design from concept through construction — residences shaped by their sites, from Santa Barbara estates to alpine retreats grounded in passive, sustainable principles.

Jazmine Marte

Colorado

Based in the Rockies, Jazmine brings deep experience across residential scales — from luxury home collections to mountain-town communities — with a focus on natural materials and architecture that mimics the unpredictability of nature itself.

Two studios, one practice — rooted on either side of the American West, meeting in the mountains between.