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Archaeo Architects focuses on very few projects for which we provide personalized superior services to residential and commercial clients.

Galisteo
Burnside
Greene
Arcure
Van Drimmelen/Gore
Hoover
Lehman
Buchan
Dejah
Miller/Anderson
Ettinger/McLaughlin
Casa Sagrada
Seade
Tandem
Wetzel/Cameron
Dunn
Cerro Gordo
Chapel of Light
Community Bank

Archaeo Architects is a firm located in Santa Fe, New Mexico doing award-winning residential and commercial work throughout the southwest, including Utah, Colorado, Texas, and Nevada. The office has received over 25 design awards and has been featured in numerous publications. We are a company that focuses on very few projects for which we provide personalized superior services to our clients.

One of Archaeo’s primary concerns is creating architecture that is one with its landscape. In this way we pay great respect to the historical vernacular buildings of every locale in which we build. We have developed a deep appreciation for the lean simple humility of early architecture found throughout the west and the world, and from this we derive our inspiration.

This respect for the landscape – wherever it may be – is the product of our having worked for years in the richly historical region of the American Southwest, with its Anasazi ruins dotted across the sunlit landscape, echoing the shadows of memory of a noble people. We pay particular attention to the character of the light and work with it as a form-defining element to sculpt the architecture. This, combined with close attention to the details of the client’s program, gives birth to buildings that feel “right” in their particular landscape – something that is deeply felt by our clients.

Another architect, James Logan Abell, FAIA, said of our work “They have successfully translated the language of centuries-old southwestern residential design into contemporary values of spatial simplicity, sculptural form, and honesty of materials. There is repose and quietude that envelopes their architecture, conveying a Zen-like austerity that is not impoverished nor vacuous, but rather spiritually transformative.
In an age where New Mexico residential architecture too often is slavishly imitative of historical precedents, their clean and refreshing statement of high elevation living is a recapitulation of time-honored southwestern design principles: lean and horizontal in expression, integrative topographical intentions, distant views framed and honored from within, and an unapologetic building expression that elevates the nobility of human habitation within the natural landscape.
Ordered with clarity, imbued with sculptural subtlety, enchanted with a southwestern legacy, their work is a touchstone of the new century’s regional architectural heritage”.