Small on purpose. Serious about our craft.
M2 was founded by Mack McKinney, who then partnered with Griffin Moore to build a different kind of architecture practice. Small enough to be personal. Experienced enough to trust with complex work. Disciplined enough to design memorable places on realistic budgets.
Memorable places, thoughtfully made.
Good architecture starts with listening. Before pen meets paper we spend real time on the site, with the client, and with the program. The simplest, most inevitable design move is almost always hiding in plain sight.
Our work leans warm, tactile, and quietly detailed. We favor materials that age well, proportions that hold up over decades, and the small moments (an arrival, a threshold, a view) that make a place feel like itself.
Fewer projects. Deeper attention.
We don't run a large firm, and we don't want to. A boutique practice means principals stay in the drawings, in the meetings, and on the job site. It means clients talk to the people making the decisions, not a rotating cast of associates.
We cap the number of engagements we accept each year. That ceiling is how we keep our promise to show up when it matters: during design, during permitting, and during construction.
Dreams, built realistically.
Ambition and pragmatism aren't opposites. Decades of built work have taught us where the money in a project actually goes, and where an inch of restraint on one detail buys a moment of drama on another.
We design with the budget in the room. That means honest conversations early, cost modeling as the design develops, and a set of documents builders can price with confidence.
Luxury across three sectors.
Boutique hotels, collab houses, resort residences, and pool-forward retreats. Heavily amenitized properties designed around arrival, atmosphere, and the guest experience.
Custom homes and estate-scale renovations. Coastal, urban, and everything in between, always tailored to how the family actually lives.
Refined workplace, retail, and mixed-use projects that carry brand identity at architectural scale, delivered with the same care as our private residential work.