Built to the
drawing.
Modus Build is an architect-led design-build practice. One team carries architecture and construction from feasibility to closeout — no handoff between firms, no gap where intent gets lost.
FIG. 01 — REFERENCE BUILD
Concept imagery — representative of practice direction.
Selected work
A hillside renovation reworked around light, grade and view — structure disciplined to the existing footprint.
CONCEPT IMAGERY
A new custom home organized around a central courtyard — interior and exterior detailed as one continuous plan.
CONCEPT IMAGERY
A westside remodel held to a strict material palette — durable, appropriate, precise over decorative.
CONCEPT IMAGERY
One problem, one logic
Most projects lose something in translation: the architect draws, hands off, and the builder reinterprets. Modus is architect-led and carries both. The intent that gets drawn is the intent that gets built.
The principal is a licensed California architect. The same team holds feasibility, permitting, procurement and field execution — answerable for design literacy and construction discipline at once.
Scope of services
Custom Homes
Ground-up residences designed and built to a single, coherent drawing set.
Major Renovations
Substantial rework of existing homes — structure, systems and plan reconsidered.
Pre-construction
Budget, schedule, procurement strategy and constructability established before the first cut.
Design Coordination
Architecture, engineering and consultants aligned to one resolved set of documents.
Interiors Coordination
Interior detailing held consistent with the architecture, not handled as a separate scope.
Outdoor Living
Terraces, courtyards and grounds detailed as part of the building, not added after.
Fire Rebuilds / Resilience
Rebuilds and hardening for fire-exposed sites, planned for durability and code from day one.
Greater Los Angeles
Pasadena-based · Westside, hillsides and eastside: Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Brentwood, Hollywood Hills, Silver Lake, Los Feliz.
Four stages, one logic
Feasibility
Site, zoning and program tested against budget — is this buildable, and is it worth building this way.
Pre-construction
Documents resolved, costs locked, procurement and schedule set before the field starts.
Build
Field execution to the drawing — budget, schedule and quality managed without drama.
Closeout
Punch, documentation and handover — the project finished as drawn and accounted for.
Three commitments
Design literacy
We build to protect the architect's intent. Decisions in the field defer to the drawing, not to convenience.
Construction discipline
Budget, schedule, procurement and field execution handled without drama — predictability is the deliverable.
Material honesty
Durable, appropriate materials, used directly. Precision over decoration; what reads right in twenty years.
Start with a feasibility conversation.
STUDIO — PASADENA · CONCEPT IMAGERY
- studio@modus.build
- Phone
- +1 (626) 399-9036
- @modus.build
- Studio
- 90 S Roosevelt Ave #110
Pasadena, CA 91107 - Region
- Greater Los Angeles