About AV Architects and Builders
AV Architects and Builders is an award-winning design-build firm known for creating exceptional modern custom homes in the Washington D.C. area. Their turnkey approach offers single-point accountability, minimizing stress for clients throughout the building process. The homes are beautifully designed and constructed with high-quality, advanced materials, ensuring easy maintenance. Their stress-free design approach caters to busy professionals, empty-nesters, and families, promoting a philosophy of Vacation Style Living year-round. Clients and collaborators alike praise the firm for its welcoming and professional environment. The firm's expertise in navigating the building process is highly valued, as is the importance of their guidance in evaluating land and avoiding pitfalls. The detailed plans, premium materials, and quality of construction are also highlighted, along with the uniqueness of the homes. The firm is known for its attention to sustainability, using top-quality products, making homes solar-ready, and incorporating maximum natural lighting and energy-efficient products. The team is described as passionate, responsive, knowledgeable, honest, and fun to work with. The design is modern, spacious, and filled with natural light, blending indoor and outdoor spaces seamlessly to create an idyllic, vacation-like setting.
Vacation Style Living: From Vision to Turnkey Reality
We went into building our home expecting stress… and somehow ended up with something that feels like a permanent vacation.
From our very first conversation, Francisca and Tony Alonso at AV Architects +Builders really listened. Designing for a multigenerational family isn’t easy, but they took the
time to talk with each of us and truly understand how we live. That alone made the whole
process feel different—in the best way.
What blew us away was how seamless everything felt. Having architecture, engineering, and construction all under one roof meant no confusion, no finger-pointing, and constant...read full review
As a sustainability consultant, I highly recommend AV Architects and Builders. They pay attention to every detail, use top-quality products, make their homes solar-ready, and ensure the homes incorporate maximum natural lighting and energy efficient products. They are a wonderful, personable, and meticulously detail-oriented team. I cannot praise them enough!
It's obvious Tony and Francisca are passionate about architecture. Outside of their passion, they are extremely responsive, knowledgeable, honest and a lot of fun to be around.
We've seen, first hand, the thoughtfulness, functionality and creativity they put in their work and highly recommend AV Architects.