Independent architectural advice · Mountain West
You're about to build something you can't un-build.
Everyone you'd normally ask has a stake in your answer. I don't.
I'm the architect you talk to before you hire an architect. And the last set of eyes before it's concrete.
I'm John Stennis. I've spent more than twenty years designing and building custom homes across the Mountain West, through fire codes, land use boards and the decisions that are hardest to undo.
Now I work on your side of the table. A Plan Review never becomes a job for me, and when I do design a building, the rules are published. You get an honest read on what you're about to build, while there's still time to change it.
Four ways in
Select Commissions
A limited number of projects a year, designed by me and drawn under my supervision. Fixed fee by phase
Design Advisory
An impartial read on the decisions you can't undo. From $500
Feasibility Studies
What a parcel allows and what building there will take, before you buy or design. From $1,500
Expert Witness
Investigation and opinion for counsel on residential construction disputes. $400/hr, plus the retainer
Every good building starts as a bad sketch. Bring yours.
The Hour
An hour of my full attention.
We work live, on screen, through your drawings, your lot or your contract. You leave with a clear next step. $500
The background
Twenty years of building, and what it taught me.
Four states
Licensed in Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming.
Fire country
Wildfire and IWUIC requirements, read against every set.
Land use
Six years on the Jackson Town Planning Commission and a hand in the 2012 Teton County Comprehensive Plan.
The forensic side
Investigating what went wrong and why, for counsel and their clients.
Forgeville Weather Station
Jackson's weather, live from an island that isn't on any map.
I built a model island in Jackson Lake. It runs on today's real sky, my studio is on it, and locals say Jackie, the lake monster, holds it up. Check the forecast, walk the village, light the beacon.