
ANGIE LIPSKI
Principal Architect
Angie believes our bodies understand a place long before our minds can explain it. She has spent her career exploring how architecture shapes the way we live, work, gather, restore, and remember.
A Missoula native, Angie returned home after practicing in San Francisco, living abroad, and traveling extensively throughout the world. While completing graduate studies in a small Italian hill town, she explored how our senses—and our movement through space—shape memory, emotion, and human experience. That curiosity has guided her work ever since.
Whether designing a custom residence or a boutique commercial project, Angie begins by listening: to the people, the place, the aspirations, and the practical realities that make every project unique. She delights in the dance between beauty and function, inspiration and budget, artistry and craft. She believes the best architecture doesn’t ask people to adapt to a building; it quietly supports the way they naturally want to live.
Her work celebrates place, honors story, and seeks to dance lightly on the earth. She hopes the spaces she helps create become more than beautiful buildings. Her greatest satisfaction comes years later, knowing those places continue to support daily rituals, meaningful connections, quiet moments of restoration, and lives that flourish.
Education:
Master of Architecture, with honors, 2002
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Italian Hilltowns Program, Civita, Italy
Bachelor of Architecture, cum laude, 1994
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Denmark International Study Program,
Copenhagen, Denmark
