Wittman Estes is a Seattle-based integrated architecture and landscape design studio that treats building and nature as a unified whole. Their approach prioritizes fluid transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces, often weaving sustainable strategies and ecological systems into architectural expression.
The firm’s work spans custom residences, multi-family housing, and fraught ecological sites, with projects that highlight material richness, climate responsiveness, and spatial depth. They are recognized for their ability to deliver designs that feel rooted, refined, and conceptually coherent.
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington, USA
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Through a series of thresholds from opaque to transparent, Yo-Ju Courtyard House, which means “secluded living” in Mandarin Chinese, embraces the future of suburban density by establishing a private experience despite being adjacent to a busy arterial…
Grasshopper Courtyard Studio offers an alternative density called courtyard urbanism. Maintaining the small footprint of a 1940s house (the lot is 4,500 square feet), a multifunctional 360-square-foot studio was added along the rear alley.
Mercer Modern is a midcentury home located on a hillside on a 15,539 SF lot in Mercer Island, WA overlooking Lake Washington. The original house had great bones but was disconnected from the outdoors.
A series of family cabins hidden in the forest and overlooking Washington’s Hood Canal, the Hood Cliff Retreat is located on a 1.13 acre site atop a bluff on a wooded site on the western shore of Hood Canal…
