Architecture & Living
Private residences, designed and built by one studio, from the first walk of the site to the day you move in.
View selected projectsMONOLITH is an architecture and design-build studio for private homes. We take on a small number of residences at a time and carry each one from first sketch to final stone, so what is drawn is what is built.
Every house begins with weeks on the land: light, wind, views and the way it falls.
We draw with daylight as deliberately as with stone, timber and bronze.
Our own build team works from our own drawings. Nothing is lost in translation.
Four houses, each shaped by its ground and built by the studio that drew it.
Coastal hillside · Private residence
Five pavilions step down the fall of the hill, so every room keeps the horizon and none blocks another. Roofs are planted to read as terraces from the road above.
Inland valley · Private residence
A colonnade of deep cast frames shades a long courtyard. The house is entered through shadow first, so the light inside arrives as an event.
Former quarry · Private residence
A single tapering volume of rammed earth, cut by three round openings and a band of copper that will darken with the seasons.
Woodland edge · Residence and gallery
Curved oak bands wrap a double-height hall for a private collection, with light tucked between the boards so the timber seems to float.
We design for the hour the light arrives, and for the decades after it.
Fewer materials, used honestly and well, age into something better than new.
Rooms are sized to the body and the view, not to a brochure of square metres.
We build for the next owner as much as for the first: quiet, durable, repairable.
One studio for the whole house: drawn, detailed and delivered by the same hands.
From site study to the last construction drawing.
We begin on the land: sun paths, views, wind and the way you move through a day. The house is drawn from there, and documented to the joint.
Rooms finished with the same care as the structure.
Stone, timber and metal are chosen together with the architecture, then detailed so the furniture, storage and lighting feel inevitable.
Gardens, terraces and approach, designed as one.
Planting, paths and water are planned from the first sketch, so the house settles into its setting instead of sitting on it.
One studio, accountable from drawing to handover.
Our build team works from our own drawings. Decisions are made once, by the people who made them, and the house is built as designed.
Tell us about your site and how you hope to live there. Every inquiry is read by an architect, and the first conversation is always on the land.