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Architecture
New houses, small civic buildings and adaptive reuse up to 5,000 m². Licensed in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
- Site & feasibility
- New build
- Adaptive reuse
- Permits
- Construction admin
Fee basis10–14% of construction
Built slow,
meant to 
outlast us.
Morrow & Vale is a studio of fourteen architects, interior designers and typographers in Portland and Missoula. We take on nine new projects a year and stay with each one long after handover.
On site this week
Halde House II, Missoula
Corso Phase 2, Portland
Exchange Hotel annex, Butte
(02) Featured
Eight buildings, rooms and marks we would show anyone.
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2011–2026
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Selected projects
We turn down about sixty projects a year. The nine we keep get a partner at every site visit, a model you can hold in your hands, and a phone number that still works in ten years.
Licensed inOregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho
WorkshopMissoula, 420 m², two lathes and a 5-axis CNC
Project sizeOne room to 5,000 m²
Aftercare24 months, included on every project
Meet the studio →
(05) How a project starts here
Inquire at 9:14. Have a project room by 9:16.
Our studio AI reads your inquiry against 112 past briefs. It drafts a scope, pulls a mood board from our archive, prices the fee and books a call with the right partner. A partner reads every one before it reaches you.
- Median time to proposal2 min 11 s
- Before this system9 working days
- Inquiries handled, 2026418
“They talked us out of a second storey. Best advice we paid for, and they didn’t charge us for it.”
Hanne HalvorsenClient, Halde House, Missoula
- HALVORSEN
- Small Hours Society
- officina fiato
- OTTOLINE
- corso/co-op
- EXCHANGE
- Ridge Road Trust
- NORTHFORK·FARMS
Fourteen people, two towns, one long table.
Iris Morrow and Teo Vale met on a building site in 2009, arguing about a handrail. They opened the studio two years later in a Portland garage. Today we are architects, interior designers, a furniture maker and two people who mostly write names.
112Projects completed
14People in two studios
9New projects a year, max
31Clients who came back
Three rules we actually keep
Philosophy01
Stay longer than the contract.
Every project includes 24 months of aftercare. We come back at 6, 12 and 24 months because the second winter tells you more than the opening party.
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Draw one thing at full size.
Once per project we draw a detail at 1:1 and pin it to the wall. It slows us down at the exact moment slowing down is cheapest.
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Use fewer materials, better.
Most of our buildings use five materials or fewer. Larch, lime plaster, steel, glass, stone. Fewer junctions, fewer leaks, fewer things to explain on site.
The people at the table
Partners & leads · 6 of 14Recognition
Juried awards · 2021–2025
Portland
Nine people. Architecture, interiors and identity. 1120 NW Glisan St, second floor. Visitors welcome on Thursdays, coffee from 9.
Missoula
Five people and the workshop. Furniture, models and the 1:1 drawings. 318 Railroad St W, behind the old freight depot.
Four disciplines. One drawing set.
Most clients hire us for one thing and stay for two. A house becomes its furniture. A hotel becomes its name. Everything is drawn in one office, by people who sit at the same table.
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Interiors
Full fit-outs, heritage restoration and FF&E for homes, hotels and restaurants.
- Space planning
- Restoration
- Lighting
- FF&E procurement
Fee basisFixed fee per phase
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Furniture
Pieces from our Missoula workshop in larch, ash and blackened steel. Editions of twelve.
- Built-in joinery
- Tables & seating
- 1:1 prototypes
Fee basisQuoted per piece
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Identity
Names, marks, signage and wayfinding for buildings and the businesses inside them.
- Naming
- Identity systems
- Signage
- Wayfinding
- Launch print
Fee basisFixed project fee
From first walk to second winter
Process · 5 phasesHow we charge
Architecture10–14% of construction cost, billed monthly against progress.
Interiors & IdentityFixed fee per phase, agreed in writing before each phase starts.
FurnitureQuoted per piece from drawings. Half at order, half on delivery.
AftercareIncluded. 24 months, three visits.
Asked often
What is the smallest project you take on?
A single room, if it is a room we care about. Most of our architecture starts around $250k in construction.
Do you work outside the Northwest?
Interiors, furniture and identity, anywhere. Architecture in OR, WA, MT and ID, or elsewhere with a local architect of record.
How soon can you start?
We are booking site visits for spring 2027. Identity and furniture can usually start within six weeks.
Who will I actually work with?
A partner, from the first site walk to the last aftercare visit. You get their direct number on day one.
Notes from two drawing rooms.
Essays, site notes and things we got wrong. Published when there is something worth saying, about once a month.
One letter a season. Drawings, site photos, no news.
Tell us about the site.
A partner reads every inquiry within one working day. Our studio AI does the paperwork in the meantime, so your first call can be about the project.
Live · inquiry → project roomWhat happens when you hit send
Prefer email? hello@morrowvale.studio · +1 (503) 555-0142 · Mon–Thu, 9–5 PT