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A custom home should be designed for your family, not for a future buyer. We listen to the memories you carry and give them a form they never quite had before.

Exciting lessons from income-restricted housing in designing for connection, community resilience, and healing.

The 5,000-square foot duplex on a compact, sloping lot shows how energy efficiency and architectural heritage can coexist.

Forge Craft Partner Trey Farmer shares how building science and restoration can unite to create healthier homes

The single biggest need in our industry is housing—globally, worldwide. But what if the solution to this massive crisis could be built faster, smarter, and still be beautiful?

We’re honored that Zilker Studios has been awarded the 2025 Community Impact Award by the Austin Business Journal.

KUT NEWS: Five years ago, the conference that oversees United Methodist churches in this part of Texas entered into an agreement with Foundation Communities, an affordable housing builder in Austin.

FORBES: Austin’s Forge Craft Architecture + Design, focusing on multifamily affordable and market-rate housing, teams with mission-driven organizations to generate sustainable, resilient, socially impactful solutions.

Recently, our Founding Principal and CEO, Scott Ginder, shared these insights at The Architect’s Newspaper Facades+ Conference in Austin, TX, where he presented on “Zilker Studios: Insulation and Electrification for High-Performance Design.” Through meticulous energy modeling and strategic selection of assemblies and systems, we were able to achieve net-zero readiness while prioritizing resident comfort and operational efficiency for this deeply affordable 110-unit project in Austin, Texas.

We’re honored to be named one of Austin Home magazine’s 2024 Best Architects.

SHELTERFORCE: There's no one way to determine what makes "green" housing. Here's a breakdown of the standards and considerations used by the affordable housing industry.

Our team here at Forge Craft Architecture + Design are incredibly proud to share that one of our recent healthy homes projects, Theresa Passive House, has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with a prestigious 2024 Housing Award!

DEZEEN: Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site.

INNOVATION & TECH TODAY: Article authored by Trey Farmer, Partner, Principal, and Chief Sustainability Officer at Forge Craft Architecture + Design

METROPOLIS MAGAZINE: For years the German sustainability standard had a singular focus on energy efficiency. But today architects around the world are using Passive House as a jumping-off point to make an even bigger impact, transforming the potential for sustainable living.

Designed by Forge Craft Architecture and Design, the property comprises 95 permanent supportive housing units.

The building has a central sky-well, which provides not only additional light to each unit but also the ability to cross-ventilate their units. Every unit also has a passive airflow system in the ceiling that cycles fresh air stripped of humidity into the apartments.

Rasmus-Temenos, located in Midtown at 1703 Gray St., is a $34.8 million project that replaces Temenos II.

JETSET MAGAZINE: In fashion, ‘Quiet Luxury’ emphasizes minimalist, supreme-quality pieces with timeless appeal…This commitment to quality and sustainability has also manifested in home design, exemplified by the ‘Passive House’ movement.

PROPMODO: As the country’s housing crisis has come more to the forefront of the political conversation in recent years, so have ideas to help solve it.

Theresa Passive House has been recognized as one of Dwell’s 2023 most-liked homes on Instagram with nearly 16,000 likes.

PLAIN Magazine: Completed in 2020, Theresa Passive House is an extension and renovation project by architecture studios Forge Craft, Hugh Jefferson Randolph Architects, and Studio Ferme in Austin’s historic Clarksville neighbourhood. Aiming to bring together historic preservation and innovative sustainable design, the studios peppered a 1914 Craftsman bungalow with modern elements, carefully considering their design decisions’ environmental, health, and ethical impacts.

Designed by Forge Craft Architecture and Design, the 25,000 square foot arts center includes two theaters, rehearsal and classroom spaces, and a lobby.

PROPMODO: It sounds a bit like the stuff of 20th-century science fiction. Computers are printing buildings. Entire homes are created in a factory and shipped, complete with furniture, to their final site.

THE COOL DOWN: As far as Trey Farmer is concerned, every new home should be a passive house.

After more than 40 days of 100+ degree weather here in Austin, it goes without saying: It’s hot out here in Texas! But then again, it seems like it’s hot everywhere. According to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, we’ve just seen the hottest June and July on record. In the Arizona desert, century-old saguaro cactuses are collapsing and dying. In Palermo, Sicily, the local observatory reported its highest-recorded temperature since records began in 1791.

Witnessing someone walk through the doors to their new home for the first time is one of the most rewarding parts of our work. This rings true no matter what kind of project we’re building, but there’s something incredibly special about projects like Zilker Studios.

DWELL: Marrying efficient construction with warm, contemporary touches, this full-house remodel shows how delightful resilient design can be.

Did we have some work done? Why yes, yes we did. Our fresh new look is all about making sure the way we think and work is reflected in the way we show up for you.

Thanks to everyone who celebrated our annual hog roast and family day! Photos captured by Likeness Studio