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Flavin Architects

Name: Flavin Architects
Address: 175 Portland Street #6, Boston, MA, 02114, US
Telephone: +16172276717
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Boston-based architects designing beautifully crafted, naturally modern homes. The work is designed to tread lightly on the earth.

STUDIO PHILOSOPHY

Natural Modernism

The work of Flavin Architects is deeply rooted in the context in which our projects are sited; we call this approach to design Natural Modernism. The firm designs buildings that relate beautifully to their surroundings, with sculpted lines and timeless materials. With an aim to blur the distinction between inside and out, we use transparency and axial views to draw the eye to the natural world. We make innovative use of cutting-edge materials and techniques to conserve energy, water and the natural systems present on the site. The success of our projects depends on strong relationships and teamwork. Flavin Architects seeks to understand our clients' intentions so that we can translate these goals into a design tailored to them. Our hand-rendered drawings, models and computer simulations work together to ensure that our clients understand how a concept will work and accurately convey the project's look and feel when built.

10/30/2026

Bunker Hill House. Designed for Boston’s oldest neighborhood, this new home responds to the surrounding urban streetscape with a projecting two-story bay, divided windows, and vertical proportions. Detailing is pared back and free of ornament, with a palette of cedar shingles and shiplap boards. Jet Mist granite gives the dark grey exterior a modern presence on a historic street.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.

Engineering Alliance

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10/28/2026

On the lower level of this project in Cambridge, MA, the eat-in chef’s kitchen dovetails into the dining room and living room where expansive doors open to the backyard of Hemlock trees, ferns, and Japanese maples.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.
Brookes + Hill Custom Builders
Wagner Hodgson
Styling by Fernanda Bourlot simplemente_blanco
Photography by Nat Rea

10/26/2026

Glass Modern. Our renovation to this Weston, MA home added a new glass front that projects out over the sloping site, with a garage tucked discreetly beneath. Copper cladding wraps the existing house, while the added roof cantilevers over the north and south terraces to create and shelter spaces for dining and relaxing.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.
KVC Builders

Webb Structural Services

Kelley Welding

Photography by

10/23/2026

Simpson-Lee House, Glenn Murcutt, 1994.

Set beneath a canopy of eucalyptus trees, this house is designed without traditional mechanical systems, using natural ventilation and a wood stove to heat the home instead. The kitchen, living, and dining areas are combined in one central space overlooking the forest, with a roof overhang that extends from the exterior wall on thin tubular struts to echo the branching of the trees.

Murcutt was born in London in 1936 and raised in Australia, where he founded his practice. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2002.

Visit the link in our bio to read our recent blog about Murcutt’s work and Colin’s time studying with him in New South Wales, Australia.

10/21/2026

Shaker Glen Brook Residence. For our current project in Metro Boston, MA, the material palette was inspired by our client’s vision for a warm, richly layered, and inviting home, and the Vastu principles that grounded the design. Green is a key design element woven throughout the spaces, thoughtfully balanced with warm wood tones, brushed nickel details, and creamy white surfaces to create a cohesive and sophisticated palette.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.
Stillwater B&R, LLC
Landscape Collaborative
Webb Structural Services
RJZ Engineering
Beals and Thomas, Inc.
Boston Survey

10/19/2026

Wales House Outbuildings. Revisiting this 1958 Hoover and Hill house in Lincoln, MA, we converted the home’s existing garage into a guest house and added a separate carport and storage building.

The carport shares the original construction’s low-slope gable, with galvanized steel posts and I-beams updating Hoover’s post and beam structure. A wood lattice screen ventilates the building by day and gives it a soft glow at night.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.
The Ralph S. Osmond Co.
Perkins Custom Contracting
Lynch Landscape & Tree Service
Webb Structural Services

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10/16/2026

Colin sketches the early concept for a new home in Newton, MA, set on a sloping site among mature trees. Designed to provide a “tree-house experience” from the second floor, a bridge from the carport leads into the private wing at entry.

Thank you to our collaborators at this stage of the project.
Stamski and McNary

10/14/2026

Bare Hill Pond House. The site of this project in Harvard, MA was initially heavily paved-over. During the construction process, the asphalt was removed, returning much of the site to its natural ecology.

Flavin houses tread lightly, conserving energy, water, and natural systems while respecting the integrity of their surroundings.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.construction

Stamski & McNary
RJZ HVAC Design
Next Electric Systems Corp Home Automation

10/12/2026

Swan Studio. Designed for an artist, this studio and living space sits in the garden of the client’s 1949 house in the historic Six Moon Hill neighborhood in Lexington, MA. Inside, a high ceiling and full wall of glass bring the wooded surroundings into the room.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.
P.M. Gallagher Builders
Everett M. Brooks Co.

Webb Structural Services
Photography by
Styling by

10/09/2026

West Gloucester House. This Cape Ann home’s layout sits parallel to the contours of the hillside, its stacked massing and steel detailing evoking the industrial vernacular of the Gloucester waterfront.

The dark color on the exterior helps the house settle into its wooded site and to further integrate the home with its natural surroundings, we took our client’s suggestion to plant a tree that extends up through the second-floor deck.

Thank you to our collaborators on this project.

Atsu Gunther Design
Webb Structural Services
Sun Engineering
The Morin-Cameron Group
Kelley Welding
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Address

175 Portland Street #6
Boston, MA
02114

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+16172276717

Website

http://www.flavinarchitects.com/, https://www.houzz.com/pro/flavinarchitects175

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