Laidlaw Schultz architects creates engaging and realizable design solutions that mutually support each client’s ideals while contributing to their surroundings. With an emphasis on integrated design, Laidlaw Schultz architects never draws a line between indoors and out. The work is always concerned with creating a cohesive whole, a project that is fully realized. Whether small or large, the solutions are always unique yet timeless, resulting in an architecture that is rich in meaning, thoughtful in approach, and poetic in its final rendering.
Since LSa’s founding in 1992, partners Scott Laidlaw and Craig Schultz have completed successful projects of considerable size and complexity. A multi-disciplinary firm encompassing both architecture and interior design, Laidlaw Schultz’s approach is not bound by scale and has lead to equally successful projects ranging in size from rugs to ranches, powder rooms to power plants. Never dogmatic in their approach, Laidlaw Schultz Architects is devoted to understanding a client’s wishes — while at the same time being cognizant of budgets, schedules and environmental issues — and finding a solution that addresses those needs as well as transforms them.
Laidlaw Schultz Architects was selected by the University of California, San Diego as one of the top young emerging architecture firms in 2007, and was included in California Home + Design magazine’s annual visionary architects’ issue, also in 2007. Additionally, the firm has been recognized in such publications as the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orange County Home, Atomic Ranch, Coastal Living, and The Robb Report Collection.