“Abdullah”
Maksym Gerasimov
Founder · Principal ArchitectThe architect who draws your house is the one accountable for it.
Abdullah leads the design work at Modern Acre Studio and stays with a project from the first walk of the land through permitting and construction. He is a licensed Texas architect, and he arrived at custom homes the long way — commercial and civic buildings first, then two years running residential construction in the field, then five and a half years at institutional scale.
That route matters more than it sounds. Time on a job site teaches what a detail costs and whether a crew can actually build it. Time at institutional scale teaches coordination and documentation — what holds a project together when a dozen consultants have to agree. Both now sit behind houses: small enough to hold as a single idea, demanding enough that every compromise eventually shows.
- Licensed
- Texas Board of Architectural Examiners · #31455
- Education
- Master of Architecture · B.S. Architectural Engineering
- Credentials
- Fourteen, across design, sustainability & building science
- Practice
- Custom luxury homes · Greater Houston & nationwide
Firm size matters less than who stays accountable for the decisions.
A boutique studio earns its place when the person responsible for the design is the person you can reach. Direct principal involvement is the point, not a courtesy.
The best custom homes are shaped before the floor plan hardens.
Site, climate, code, budget and the way a household actually lives all belong in the room early — while changing them still costs a conversation instead of a change order.
Design intent is easiest to lose after the drawings leave the studio.
Staying involved through permitting and construction is what keeps the built house faithful to the one that was designed, when the field throws up conditions no drawing predicted.
Resilience is not one upgrade; it is a chain of coordinated decisions.
Drainage, envelope, structure and documentation are one problem, not four. In Houston heat, humidity and rainfall, treating them separately is how homes quietly underperform.
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