Residential Design
Creative Collaborations
The projects of Risa Boyer Architecture are distinct in their siting, massing, design, and materiality, but they share a similar scale—one that is approachable and unassuming. Not surprisingly, firm founder and principal architect Risa Boyer Leritz, AIA, was drawn to the design profession after attending an exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses at the Marin County Civic Center, also designed by Wright, in California. “I was around 10 or 12 at the time, but something about the scale of those little residential units attracted me,” Risa recalls.
Growing up with an artistic family in the Napa Valley, surrounded by wood-clad, post-and-beam houses, now generally described as Midcentury Modern, Risa naturally formed a design aesthetic at a young age. “My parents were very supportive of everything I did,” she says, “and when I had started to show an interest in architecture, my mom leaned into it, probably to steer me toward a career.”
