Carlos Delgado Architect

Carlos is a trend setter and his experience and knowledge were invaluable in designing our passive solar home. He really listens and has the ability to enhance every project. He is a natural teacher and his history of experience gives him the authority to know what this planet needs for it's people to survive. He is a visionary and can see what needs to happen with building and working with nature. I'm very excited for him and his new approach to building and wanting to make a difference and take a stand. I really feel he is "the one" to reach the masses about what direction we need to be headed with small homes and more natural building materials. Our Earth Advantage Platinum home is a healthy environment and our house breathes and exchanges the air so it is always fresh. It's a dream come true for a person who suffers from allergies! We plan on having Carlos design our next home which will be more energy efficient and hopefully off the grid!!! We want to be self sufficient and want that for everyone!! We are lucky to have worked with Carlos and Tom! They are full of heart and integrity!!

Everyone comes into our home and goes, “Wow!” It’s that kind of place for us. The thing we liked best about working with Carlos and Tom is their ability to listen and communicate effectively and efficiently. While they certainly have their own ideas and opinions, they are great listeners and incorporate what they hear into their creative process and the ultimate design. Unlike most clients, we weren’t living in the area and did most of this remotely, so great communication was essential. We started with 70 acres that had two dilapidated buildings on it. We ended up building a house, renovating a barn, building a new barn, an arena and a hay barn. They were able to create a cohesiveness in the design – the look and feel – of all the structures on the ranch. Our goal was to maximize privacy and the views and create an energy efficient home. To accomplish this, Carlos and Tom spent quite a bit of time siting the house on the land to ensure it was properly placed. In the end, they recommended rotating the house 11 degrees from where we initially wanted it. It made a tremendous difference. Regarding design details, we also had an interest installing triple pane windows, which is not typical in this country. Carlos & Tom found a European window that was being distributed in the US. We used them. As a result, our home is super quiet and energy efficient. Carlos works very well with builders and Tom particularly shines in this area, especially with the details. They begin with a blank sheet of paper and work the details with the builders and the owners to the very end of the project. The result is a beautifully designed and executed ranch that exceeded our expectations.

Carlos Delgado's creative architectural design talent is so obvious in his brilliant work that it needs no additional affirmation. What I'd like to specially comment about is Carlos' talent as a listener and what that brings to his architectural work. When Carlos designed my wife's and my dream house, he integrated everything we communicated and showed him into a near perfect, stunning design on the first pass. I was amazed and impressed that he absorbed and converted every detail we shared with him into a design plan that was unique, special, modern, cool, and perfectly natural in our country setting. We couldn't have been happier. Carlos was a total pleasure to work with at every stage of the process. David Alexander Ashland, OR

Working with architect Carlos Delgado to design our custom home was a very good experience. From his extensive questionnaire to understand our wishes, to considering the site, views and path of the sun, he guided us through the design process with natural facility. He has an intuitive ability to take others’ ideas and turn them into a thoughtful, contemporary aesthetic. We found Carlos very easy to communicate with and always considerate of our input and questions. His expertise in green building technology and design, as well as his ability to explain them to us, was invaluable. We could not be happier that we chose to design our home with Carlos and would choose to work with him again without hesitation.

Carlos and Tom were great to work on our new home build project. They were able to make sense of our vision for what we wanted in our home and turn it into reality. They were very receptive of our ideas and great, creative problem solvers. Highly recommended.

If you know EXACTLY what you want, you don't need an architect. But if you want help bringing your feelings into a structure, you need an architect. Carlos and Tom were fabulous. I wanted an open home with great views. They walked the lot, we met weekly. I felt comfortable talking to them about my wishes. Designing a personal residence is very personal. It was difficult for me to express what I wanted, I just had lived in other people's homes and knew I wanted something else. They helped discover what I really wanted. Great ideas, practical advice. Help with agencies. Very professional. Check their website. I love my home

Not only did Carlos Delgado design my own home, but I have worked with him & his team on many of their other projects over the past 7 years as an interior designer. Carlos & Tom are very experienced & professional, & they listen to what their clients want. They're easy to work with, as well as approachable. They are creative, yet their homes always reflect their client's personalities. Working with Carlos & his clients is always a team effort, & I can't imagine a better way to get a great end product. Ideas are bounced around, problems are solved with creative solutions, & everyone seems to enjoy the process. They truly care about the homes they work on, as well as their clients. They know the Rogue Valley well, & their expertise & guidance goes far beyond just designing a home. Carlos has enduring connections to the most sought-after professionals in the building industry, & continues to stay current with the constant changes this industry brings.

Delgado homes stand out in our community. I wanted that aesthetic for our house. Our site is tricky and hillside ordinances are strict and narrow. Carlos and his lead, Tom, designed the beautiful and functional home we wanted within the strict Ashland requirements. AND, Carlos and the whole team are fun to work with. By the time we were "done" he had introduced me to what is now my whole building team. We started construction in January 2017 and the house is coming along nicely. Carlos and his team are still here by our side... Thank you Carlos!

I have used Carlos twice over the last 10 years to remodel my 1910 bungalow in Ashland, Oregon. Carlos has amazing vision, attention to detail, professionalism, and, most importantly to me, listens to his clients and is a wonderful person to work with. He helped solve challenges of small spaces by bringing in light from all sides and adding amazing details that made the existing spaces function better and be a delight to live in. Carlos and Tom are a fantastic team...I highly recommend them.

We met with a couple of architects and had a recommendation to meet with Carlos, and we liked him immediately. He was very personable and friendly and he took the time to get to know us. Tom and Carlos make a nice duo – strengths on both the creative and the practical side. When we first got the bids, the house we wanted was much more than we could afford. Carlos worked with us to make it more affordable and yet still keep the style of the house. We’ve had them redesign the house multiple times over the past several years. We came up with some pretty extravagant ideas and they’d help us see what the consequences could be, and ultimately decide to not spend money on an idea that may be really interesting, but is not necessarily effective or efficient. The most important thing we wanted was a window wall (NanaWall) that opened to our view, and they figured out how to make that work in our budget by making other compromises. It was also important for us to have an open stairway and they figured out how to make that work too. They have so much knowledge about the environment and elements. When we first bought the property, Tom went up and figured out the sunrise/sunset at different times of year and created a model that we could play with at home, which has been so helpful in making overall design decisions. It’s been a good relationship. We came close to not building the house a couple of times and Carlos has been able to work through that without getting fed up with us. Each time we called, he’d say, “Let’s talk about it and see how we can make it work.” We’re happy they hung in there with us and that the house is finally under construction!

It was November when we first hired Tom and Carlos and they came up in the snow with the builder and walked around the whole property. Tom had a really good eye for the beautiful trees on the building site and how to incorporate them into the design. In fact we ended up moving the garage in order to keep two Douglas Firs. Tom and Carlos have a powerful synergy as a team. Carlos was able to turn those things that were important to us into a design that was highly functional and really lovely, by paying attention to light and line – and to the landscape on which the house was situated. Tom is an excellent listener and was able to keep track of the things that were important to us and attend to them at the right time in the process so they didn’t get lost. And, they worked really well with us as a couple – being advocates for us individually – by listening and flushing out our vision of how we would be able to use the space for our individual needs. They were both available and engaged every step of the way. Building long distance had its own challenges but they worked with us and addressed our budget concerns in a way that would maintain the integrity of what we wanted to do. And, they worked so well with the builder that we know there were a numerous things that came up along the way that we never heard about because they were just taken care of.

Carlos is easily among the top architects in Southern Oregon. They are well known for their attention to clients needs, cutting edge designs, and grasp of building science and technologies.