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# Malcolm Davis Architecture

Original Houzz profile: [Malcolm Davis Architecture](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/malcolm-davis-architecture-pfvwus-pf~1862396620)

## Professional summary

- **Primary category:** Architects
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Serves:** San Francisco
- **Houzz rating:** 5.0 out of 5 (1 review)
- **Best of Houzz:** 6 awards (2012–2018), for Design, Service.

## About

### Houzz Badges

- Houzz Influencer
- 100,000 Ideabook Saves

Malcolm is a Bay Area native with an intimate understanding of its regional building styles and climates. Educated at UC Berkeley, his strong appreciation of the craft of building goes hand in hand with thoughtful stewardship of resources. He takes pride in creative problem solving through simple, elegant solutions. Employing a timeless vocabulary and a restrained palette, Malcolm’s projects over the last 20 years have earned multiple awards from the American Institute of Architects and publication in Dwell, Elle Decore, Sunset Magazine, California Home & Design, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Our firm’s design philosophy is rooted in the Bay Region Tradition – site specific, unaffected in style, with strong interior/exterior connections.  The play of natural light is of paramount importance in our work, as are the unique challenges of constrained spaces, urban infill, adaptive reuse, and green building strategies. Whether we begin with bare land or an existing structure, our projects develop their character through careful interpretation and sensitivity to each client's program, orientation, context, and climate. We bring warmth to modern design.

### Areas Served

- San Francisco

## Business Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Business Name | Malcolm Davis Architecture |
| Address | 2130 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California 94110, United States |
| Phone | (415) 552-1515 |
| Website | http://www.mdarch.net |
| Followers on Houzz | 545 |

**Social profiles:**
- Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/malcolmdavisarchitecture

## Contact

- **Houzz profile:** [Malcolm Davis Architecture](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/malcolm-davis-architecture-pfvwus-pf~1862396620)
- **Website:** http://www.mdarch.net
- **Phone:** (415) 552-1515

## Credentials

- **Best of Houzz:** 6 awards (2012–2018), for Design, Service.

## Reviews

**Overall rating: 5.0 out of 5 — 1 review**

### All 1 review

**★★★★★ — Oren Zeev, Dec. 2013**

> We are using MDA for building from scratch our house. the style is modern, but also practical and warm. MDA has been the perfect choice. Malcolm is extremely gifted and very experienced. He does the work himself and does not just pass it on to more junior staff. He is also attentive to our inputs.

## Selected projects

- [Silicon Valley](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/silicon-valley-pj-vj~2119830)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 14
  - Description: The Silicon Valley Residence by Malcolm Davis Architecture draws upon its Northern California context, embodying a casual California lifestyle through strong indoor-outdoor connections. Set amongst sweeping redwood and oak trees, the residence resembles a modern-day villa—and is exactly the type of retreat the homeowners envisioned for their primary residence.
- [Baird](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/baird-pj-vj~40037)
  - Location: Oakland, CA
  - Photos: 10
  - Description: Anticipating their return from New York City, this young couple bought a house built hastily after the Oakland Fire of 1991. It had significant dry rot, a cave-like entry, an awkward layout and took little advantage of its large site and sweeping views. The whole house renovation addresses these problems and meets the needs of their growing family. The architect cut a circulation spine through the main living levels, creating transparency, capturing views, connecting the top floor to garden with…
- [Bole](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bole-pj-vj~24924)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 12
  - Description: Benefiting from advantages of both urban and natural environments, this 1905 family row house sits in the middle of a city and opens at the back to a verdant park. Although there was virtually no light in its core, circulation was awkward and access—visual and physical—to outdoors was minimal, the owners loved the duality of the site. The goal of this four-floor renovation was to address these issues while employing green building strategies. The architect opened the core of the house, relocated…
- [Boro Hamilton](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/boro-hamilton-pj-vj~1642417)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 8
- [Pelican Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/pelican-residence-pj-vj~500006)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 8
- [20th Street](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/20th-street-pj-vj~1642442)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 9
- [Palo Alto](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/palo-alto-pj-vj~1644063)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 16
- [2130 Folsom Street](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/2130-folsom-street-pj-vj~24929)
  - Location: San Francisco, CA
  - Photos: 8
  - Description: This formerly dilapidated building in the Mission District has been transformed into a catalyst for change: an incubator for small locally-owned businesses and a community hub and meeting house. The improvements have been sensitively scaled and planned for cross-pollination and integration into the local fabric. With careful attention to detail and a vision of architecture as a tool in the service of urban vitality, the Stable is now at the center of a stable community.
- [21st Street](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/21st-street-pj-vj~25415)
  - Location: San Francisco, CA
  - Photos: 17
  - Description: This turn of the century residence is located on a quaint block in San Francisco’s Eureka Valley. The design transformed the dark and dilapidated house into a warm and airy home. Walls were removed and spaces reconfigured to create an open floor plan and connection to the panoramic view. Skylights, transom windows, and glass floors were added to capture natural and borrowed light and further open up the house. Clean lines and a simple material palette – Douglas fir, V-groove paneling, stainless…
- [Belgrave](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/belgrave-pj-vj~43169)
  - Location: San Francisco, CA
  - Photos: 10
- [Stone](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/stone-pj-vj~40031)
  - Location: The Sea Ranch, CA
  - Photos: 25
  - Description: The house and its guest house are a composition of iconic shed volumes sited between Highway 1 to the East and the end of a cul-de-sac to the West. The Eastern façade lends a sense of privacy and protection from the highway, with a smaller entrance, high windows, and thickened wall. The exposed framing of the thickened wall creates a floor to ceiling feature for books in the living room. The Western façade, with large glass barn doors and generous windows, opens the house to the garden, The Sea…
- [Anchorage](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/anchorage-pj-vj~76503)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 20
- [Bartlett](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bartlett-pj-vj~42016)
  - Location: San Francisco, CA
  - Photos: 9
- [Cook](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/cook-pj-vj~39449)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 16
  - Description: The Cook house at The Sea Ranch was designed to meet the needs an active family with two young children, who wanted to take full advantage of coastal living. As The Sea Ranch reaches full build-out, the major design challenge is to create a sense of shelter and privacy amid an expansive meadow and between neighboring houses. A T-shaped floor plan was positioned to take full advantage of unobstructed ocean views and create sheltered outdoor spaces . Windows were positioned to let in maximum natur…
- [Meadow House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/meadow-house-pj-vj~24923)
  - Location: The Sea Ranch, CA
  - Photos: 29
  - Description: The Meadow House is a house we love because it provides a calm, comfortable, and restorative sanctuary from the often chaotic lives of a scientist/ statistician and an avid bird enthusiast. They commissioned the home as the fulfillment of a dream. The well-traveled couple wanted a calm place to read and write, in a reflective, inspiring coastal setting. An inviting courtyard separates the main living spaces from a two-story volume that houses sleeping and bathing quarters. The massing creates a…
- [Meinderstma](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/meinderstma-pj-vj~88062)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 17
- [Minott](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/minott-pj-vj~42058)
  - Location: San Francisco, CA
  - Photos: 12
  - Description: Starting with a master plan, this renovation included multiple projects that were completed sequentially over several years, to allow for the evolving needs of the family and the finances. The challenge was to provide a uniform design direction that would create internal connections between the floors and provide access to a mature garden and sweeping views on this expansive city lot. Borrowed light, a theme throughout, shares light between spaces.
- [19th Street](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/19th-street-pj-vj~155023)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 18
- [Ruliffson](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/ruliffson-pj-vj~41999)
  - Location: Sea Ranch, CA
  - Photos: 7
- [Spolyar](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/spolyar-pj-vj~40041)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 21

[See all 22 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/malcolm-davis-architecture-pfvwus-pf~1862396620)

## Ideabooks

- [Modern Home in San Francisco](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/74562245/list/modern-home-in-san-francisco) — 9 ideas
- [MD likes](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/6520005/list/md-likes) — 11 ideas

[See all 2 ideabooks](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/users/malcolmdavis)

## Community Q&A

**Q: what is the manufacturer of the thin profile metal interior doors?** *(in Photo Questions)*

I have a client who is looking for the same interior doors in the project. thin profile,  metal, swinging divided light.
Can you share the manufacturer?

A: The manufacturer for these doors is Crittall Windows (https://www.crittall-windows.com/).

**Q: HelloWhere do you get the green bath top from please?  It's wonderful.** *(in Photo Questions)*

marisaguagenti@hotmail.com

A: You should be able to find a counter/stone fabricator that would be able to source the granite locally.

**Q: columns** *(in Photo Questions)*

What's the story on these columns?  concrete?

A: Yes, those are poured-in-place concrete posts.

**Q: do you have the designs for the custom bed?** *(in Photo Questions)*

I’m in love with this bed.

A: The bed is custom designed.

**Q: What is the tile used in this pool?** *(in Photo Questions)*

Curious what type of tile is used in the pool.  What type of material and what is the brand.  Thanks!

A: 6" x 12" Carbone tile and Charcoal grout were selected for the waterline, and 3 rows of (1) 6" tile and (2) 3" bull-nose tiles for the dam wall.

**Q: Where can I get a coffee table like this?** *(in Photo Questions)*

A: The furniture was selected by the clients.

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*Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-08-13.*