Horst Architects

We appreciate Horst Architects professional expertise in helping us securing a permit for our detached ADU expansion. They were always fast to respond and explain the process to us in detail. They are knowledgeable and we would totally recommend Horst Architects to our friends for their ADU needs.

I contacted Horst Architects, I'm happy I found them. The experience they accumulated during the years is definitely a great advantage to me as a client. They know how to navigate through the complex world of the building and safety. The architectural plans include the engineering is completed and approved. We ready to start. I'm exited and happy with the results.

Horst Architects are designing my new Laguna home. He passion and creativity have taken my ordinary, original concept and turned it into something spectacular. In addition, he is a really nice person to work and collaborate with, which is also reflected in his team. I highly recommend.

I have been working with Horst for two years, he is a very talented designer with great experience and knowledge, his office is in a very nice area of downtown of Laguna Beach with a wonderful staff, I am so happy working with him.

I don't typically write reviews but my experience with Horst Architects has been so so positive and such a collaborative effort with Horst and his team allowing me to freely express my ideas, my inspirations, and even some "let's just see if this would work" concepts that I wanted to share my positive experience with any one else who might be thinking about building, rebuilding, improving or modifying a home, business, hotel or anything else. Horst is a visionary and truly focuses on the big picture, listening to his clients, learning about their lifestyle and life experiences that have influenced the way they live. Or better yet, the way they would like to start living or working in a special environment that he and his team custom create for each client. In my case I am downsizing from a very large home to something more manageable. The actual property has a home on it but it is being torn down to build a new one. To say the lot is challenging is an understatement, but somehow Horst has created a plan that maximizes what would have been an obstructed view, fir everything I need into the floor plan, created a spectacular and completely unique exterior elevation and added surprises to the plan that I would never have thought of. And all the while, because the new home will require HOA approval with different guidelines and restrictions than those imposed by the city, I believe he has figured out a way to work with all of these "rules" and still design something so amazing that I will love my new home. His style is unique and flexible but have no doubt, he is a master at contemporary and modern! He and the team are so accommodating and open to input that I look forward to every meeting.

his design of our home in laguna beach, ca. was incredible and exciting, sitting on a cliff, facing the ocean! he was always there to make sure that during construction, his vision was completed and was so helpful when our builder ran into problems. amazing job!!

Horst Architects designed our 4,500 sq ft dream home in laguna Beach. We could not be any happier with the result. The architectual design is breath taking and many have said it is one of the most dramatic home designs in laguna Beach. Horst has our highest recomendation for anyone looking for a new home design or a home re-model. The end result with Host will be a design that is an architectual statement. Charlie Hawkins Laguna Beach, CA

Horst is one of my favorite Architects! He is innovative and a true collaborator. His work is thoughtful, creative and very detailed. I am fortunate that we have worked successfully together for many years on dozens of projects. Horst is an inspirational designer!

Horst is incredibly talented. In 2004, we purchased a dated and inefficient 1980s 2000 square foot two story condo with a spectacular setting and bay and ocean view and asked him to create a contemporary design and layout that was worthy of the setting. We gave him our requirements. He thought completely out of the box to come up with a spectacular result beyond our expectations. In addition to reorienting the entire home to take advantage of the view and make the interior as spectacular as the view, he somehow was able to work in his own idea, a two story volume large foyer to open up the entire home. The space is not only a work of art, but it works. Even with losing the space to the foyer, we have far more usable space than we had before the reconstruction. With the project completed in 2007, our home has been in art and architecture tours, in magazines and wows every visitor.