Light-filled, contemporary homes shaped around how you live
About
LSH Architects is the residential practice of architect Lori Hsu, specializing in contemporary custom homes that are highly individualized, thoughtfully crafted, and beautifully resolved. Lori designs spaces shaped around how you live—reflecting your needs, preferences, and the experiences you want to elevate.
A light-filled contemporary residence with overlapping roof planes, clerestory windows, and seamless connections between indoor and outdoor living.
Woodland Modern Retreat
A live-work retreat nestled in the woods, designed to embrace nature and support a dynamic lifestyle of cooking, working, creating, and displaying art.
Los Altos Residential Renovation
A vaulted great room creates openness and flow, while renovated rooms continue the refined materials and support a cohesive contemporary renewal.
San Francisco Townhouse Transformation
A complete reimagining of a San Francisco townhouse, blending contemporary design with the character of its historic setting.
LSH Architects designs custom residences, renovations, and additions for clients seeking sophisticated, contemporary homes. The work is defined by light-filled interiors, refined material expression, and strong relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces. Each project responds directly to its setting and the rhythms of everyday life, resulting in homes that are highly functional and grounded in place.
Why LSH
Principal-Led Expertise
Every project is led by architect Lori Hsu, bringing 25+ years of residential experience and refined, high-end design insight to every detail.
Cohesive Vision + Technical Craft
Clarity from concept through construction—ideas carried from overall vision to beautifully resolved details and rigorous documentation.
Thoughtful, Personalized Collaboration
A boutique, highly attentive design process shaped around your needs, lifestyle, and goals—ensuring a home that feels both tailored and enduring.
Approach
Through an attentive, collaborative process, Lori creates homes that are inspired, a joy to inhabit, and built to last. The work extends beyond visual beauty—each home is crafted to enhance daily living, reflect the people who inhabit it, and endure with clarity, purpose, and lasting character.
"Lori is an amazing and talented architect. We have been working on a new home with her from the earliest concepts to now wrapping up the details that will surround us for many years to come. It is hard to describe, but Lori's work embraces a sense of proportion and drama that is very rare. Her solutions are exciting and original, not ornamental. Lori is also a joy to work with. The synergy we have created between client and architect has been wonderful and productive and at times humorous. I tell others who ask how I like my architect, that we are so pleased because she always listens thoughtfully to our ideas, and no matter what we suggest, she always comes up with a solution better than we had initially conceived."
