douglas burnham
principal and founder

Burnham’s range of experience includes residential, educational, commercial, civic and hospitality building and renovation projects as well as exhibition design, product design, furniture and custom lighting fixtures.

His work has been published in magazines and journals including dwell, Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design, Artweek, Assemblage, and the San Francisco Examiner Magazine.

Burnham has lectured in the U.S. and in Europe and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. He is an active board member of the Berkeley Montessori School, where he was recently instrumental in the design and implementation of a seismic upgrade and stewarded the design and construction of a new school facility.

Burnham is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Architecture where he received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Prize for his final thesis work. Before establishing his own firm in 1998, Burnham worked for six years with the Interim Office Of Architecture (IOOA) in San Francisco, California.

claire bigbie
designer - style

Claire spent her formative years in Seattle where she immersed herself in the world of design, music and skateboarding. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 she moved to London, where she worked for the hip interior design studio Precious McBane. The exchange rate and the skateboard industry brought her to San Francisco. While working as the style editor for ReadyMade Magazine Claire, and her partner Jay, hired envelope a+d for an extensive renovation of their home. Three days after their move-in date Claire began consulting on projects with envelope a+d where she now leads the interiors component of the collaborative design process.

patrick flynn
designer - project manager

Patrick graduated from California College of the Arts where he earned a Bachelor's of Architecture with High Distinction, receiving awards in design, digital representation and building technology. Patrick received Honorable Mention awards for solo and team submissions to the National AIDS Memorial Grove Competition in 2005, the Boston Society of Architect's In Pursuit of Housing Student Competition in 2005 and the AISC/ACSA Steel Construction Student Competition in 2006.

grayson holden
designer - project manager

Grayson is a graduate of California College of the Arts where he earned awards including the Henry J. Adams merit award. After serving as a summer intern, he joined the team full time in 2008. Grayson grew up in a back-to-the-land inspired household in Maine that provided insights to the grittier aspects of food and building. He continues to develop interests in sustainability on his off-the-grid farm in rural Hawaii; a condition he strives to negotiate with work focused on the urban condition.