We are a Colorado-based studio creating place-inspired architecture rooted in sustainability and permanence.
Over nearly two decades of design practice, we have honed our co-creative process with clients. When you work with us, we support building clarity and hierarchy for the project goals that respect a budget. We’ll help build the right team for a healthy owner-architect-builder triad that honors accountability and leads to the highest quality and success. As the owner’s advocate, always, we foster alignment through clear communication, building trust. We guide you through a transparent, milestone-based design journey—ensuring that vision, expectations, and investment remain in sync.
Specializing in heirloom mountain, ranch, farm, and equestrian properties, we will work with you to take a project from a blank slate and a dream through site planning, design, permitting, construction documents, and architectural interiors. We’re there as your advocate through construction.
About Laura
Laura Marion is the principal architect, founder, and creative director at Laura Marion.
Inspired first, foremost and always by the natural landscape, Laura is dedicated to place-sensitive designs with a more-with-less approach to get projects off the ground. She weaves forward-looking design and sustainable building practices with historic forms of the Rocky Mountain west. She guides the studio to develop motifs, details and materials that answer the landscape to result in an heirloom property designed to last for generations, less the frills.
Laura comes from a long line of architects and interior designers practicing in Colorado; design was in the atmosphere of her upbringing. Laura is a licensed architect with a Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado, Denver, with undergraduate training in fine arts from Oxford University. She has been practicing architecture since 2008, and has found her passion curating the architectural and interiors experience for rural and ranch properties rooted in family, history and the story of the land.
Laura splits her time between Steamboat Springs and Boulder Colorado with her husband, and two children.
Laura Marion, A.I.A.
Founder | Principal Architect