Sherwood
USA
The firm is led by Lead Designer Mark Stewart, with the help of the finest Graphic, Engineering, Drafting, and 3d Modeling staff anywhere. Mark’s house plans are inspired by a lifelong love of art and design and a unique Spiritual Practice.
Mark has been designing homes for most of his life. He started in High School in earnest as an architectural drafting student at Estacada High School. Mark actually designed the facade of the new Estacada Admin building in 1975. An outstanding Student-Athlete Mark was offered full ride scholarships to almost any college you can name including Annapolis, and a full ride scholarship from each branch of the Military. From there he attended College and studied architecture at The University of Oregon and Portland State. Leaving school early for practical experience, Mark spent many years free-lancing, working for home builders and various architectural design firms including Piercy & Barclay Design , Olson-Argo Architects and Living Design. It was during a ten year period in his twenties that Mark logged the required 10,000 hours necessary to master his craft. At the age of 30 and directly coincident with taking formal vows as a spiritual practitioner of The Way of The Heart-Adidam (founded by his Spiritual Teacher Adi Da Samraj) his design work, creativity and intuition took a vast leap forward. Within a very short time Mark was producing some of the hottest designs in the Portland Area and quickly amassed a loyal following of leading developers and home builders including the highest profile custom home commissions. The Mark Stewart Resume has only grown in depth, magnitude and quality over the past 40 years.
The most recent and passionate focus of Mark and the Company is the creation, nurturing and production of sensitively designed "Sized Just Right" Homes. This overwhelming focus is leading the company down surprising, uplifting and lasting designs that are available as custom homes as well as prepared stock home plans rich with important patterns and features.
Mark is still a practitioner of Adidam, and makes his home in Newberg with his wife Debbie . To his great delight all three of his children all play a significant role in the day to day operation of the Mark Stewart Studio. Michael Stewart is the lead Design/Drafting Associate, Michelle Stewart is the office administrator and Mark’s Personal Assistant. Sam Stewart, a Master Musician also is the firms social media Guru.