Brian Korte

FAIA | Principal

Brian leads the San Antonio office and the firm’s residential, ranch, and vineyard-related projects currently in California, Hawaii, and Texas. With a passion for authenticity, richness, and well-crafted materials, Brian’s work champions the honesty of modernism with a commitment to practical yet artful solutions. Each project maintains a focus on the convergence of distilled design, regional ecology, ingenuity, and resilience that allows the structures to step back in favor of the surrounding natural landscape.

Brian’s work has been recognized with national, state, and local AIA design awards, and additional awards from related industries. Most notably, Armstrong Oil and Gas in Denver received the 2011 AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture; Hill Country Wine Cave and Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn in Paso Robles received AIA Small Projects Awards in 2022 and 2019 respectively. Clayton Korte projects led by Brian have been published nationally and internationally, most notably with the Hill Country Wine Cave on the cover of Interior Design magazine’s September 2020 issue and the book Hidden Architecture.

In February 2020, Brian was elevated to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects, an honor awarded to only three percent of all AIA members that acknowledges personal achievements, architectural excellence, and those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.