2024 June – Bruns Architecture expands office to include fabrication workshop
Bruns Architecture is excited to share we’ve expanded our Third Ward office space to include a custom fabrication shop. This workshop space increases our capacity to fabricate bespoke elements for our projects and to support our ability to create full scale proof of concept architectural details for our designs.

2022 November 18 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Design Award
Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2020 ALA Design Award for their Prairie Remnant House project. The national ALA Design Awards program is an annual showcase of the power of design.

2021 March 16 – Bruns Architecture named in Best Residential Architects feature
Bruns Architecture is pleased to be named as one of the Best Residential Architects in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Home Builder Digest. The Best Residential Architects in Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Before & After Photos (homebuilderdigest.com)

2021 January 14 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Gold Design Award
Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2020 ALA Gold Design Award for their Woven House project. The national ALA Design Awards program is an annual showcase of the power of design. Jury comments included “Elegant simplicity, elegant detailing, and moderation in materials - this building does it all. And does it with elegance and grace.” “Beautiful proportioning.”

2020 April 29 – Bruns Architecture’s Meander House shared in AIA Wisconsin Framework for Design Excellence Case Study Series
Bruns Architecture is pleased to have our Meander House project shared as part of the AIA Wisconsin’s continuing education course series titled Framework for Design Excellence. The series explains the challenges Wisconsin architects encounter and their final design solutions that will define the next generation of buildings. The series focuses on the architects’ approach toward sustainability and how it informed the design concept through the Framework of Design Excellence.

2020 March 27 – Bruns Architecture’s Woven House featured on Archello
Bruns Architecture is pleased to have our Woven House project featured on Archello as their Staff Pick today. Archello Staff Pick.

2020 February 4 – Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House featured on Houzz: 10 Times to Hire an Architect
This editorial discusses the value an architect can bring to your project. See more on this topic and how we partnered with these homeowners to solve a mid-century urban renovation here: 10 Times to Hire an Architect

2019 October 1 – Bruns Architecture’s Meander House featured in MKE Lifestyle Magazine
The current issue of MKE Lifestyle Magazine includes a feature on Bruns Architecture’s Meander House, in a piece titled Artful Architecture.

2019 September 10 – Bruns Architecture’s Woven House featured in Dwell Magazine
The current issue of Dwell Magazine includes a feature on Bruns Architecture’s Woven House, in a “focus” piece titled That’s a Wrap.

2018 October 10 – Bruns Architecture house selected for Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Event
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy contacted Bruns Architecture to host their annual Leadership Circle Dinner at Arboretum House in Madison, Wisconsin. The organization is dedicated to protecting and preserving the remaining structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

2018 October – Bruns Architecture Celebrates 10 year anniversary
This month marks the 10 year anniversary of Bruns Architecture. We’d like to express our sincere gratitude to all of our clients, without whom we would not be able to continue doing the work we love. And a special thanks to our in-house team members, as well as all of the partners and collaborators that have contributed to our journey.

2018 January 25 – Bruns Architecture’s Woodland House featured in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Journal Sentinel, part of the USA Today network, featured Woodland House in a piece titled “At Home With: 8,000 square feet of smart home”.

2018 January 17 – Bruns Architecture receives Best of Houzz 2018 for Design
Houzz (www.houzz.com), the leading platform for home remodeling and design, today announced the community’s picks for Best Of Houzz 2018. Bruns Architecture was voted by the Houzz community as a winner of the Best of Houzz 2018 awards in their Design category.

2016 September 12 – Midwest Masterpiece in Dwell Magazine
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured in Dwell Magazine, highlighting the use of a semi-custom cable railing system by AGS Stainless. https://www.dwell.com/article/midwest-masterpiece-9b78946e

2016 June 20 – Small Architectural Firm of the Year 2016 – Wisconsin
Bruns Architecture is honored to have been named Small Architectural Firm of the Year 2016 – Wisconsin by BUILD Magazine.

2016 June 1 – Contemporist Feature Article: 13 Examples Of Modern Houses With Wooden Shingles
Bruns Architecture’s Arboretum House is included in this feature. The article discusses how wood shingles can add texture to a modern home façade.

2016 April 3 – Editorial Ideabook Feature: 8 Design Habits of a Successful Architect
Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House is featured in an editorial Ideabook by Danish architect and Houzz contributor Eric Reinholdt. The article discusses common methods and traits shared by many successful architects. Aspects of form and order, hierarchy, as well as creating rules and knowing when and why to break them are shared.

2016 April 01 – M Magazine: The Modern Tree House
Bruns Architecture’s Arboretum House is featured in the April Home and Garden issue of M Magazine. The article, titled “The Modern Tree House”, highlights how this modern home melds seamlessly into its natural, wooded setting.

2016 February 5 – Houzz Feature Article: 4 Modern Kitchens That Deliver on Details
Bruns Architecture’s Arboretum House kitchen design is included in this feature. The article discusses how modern kitchens show that personalized attention creates a design that’s more than the sum of its parts.

2016 January 12 – Build Direct 15 Best in Milwaukee
Bruns Architecture has been named one of Milwaukee’s best architects on BuildDirect.com.

2016 January 12 – Bruns Architecture receives Best of Houzz 2016 for Design and Customer Service
Houzz (www.houzz.com), the leading platform for home remodeling and design, today announced the community’s picks for Best Of Houzz 2016. Bruns Architecture was voted by the Houzz community as a winner of the Best of Houzz 2016 awards in both their Design and Customer Service categories.

2015 November 6 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Design Award
Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2015 ALA Design Award for their Rock River House project. The national ALA Design Awards program is an annual showcase of the power of design.

2015 October 6 – Houzz Influencer
Once again, Bruns Architecture has been named a Houzz Influencer. The Influencer badge is awarded to professionals whose advice and knowledge are most appreciated by the Houzz community. We are honored to be recognized and appreciated for providing great service to our clients.

2015 July 20 – Houzz Feature Article: Architecture: 8 characteristics of talented architects and designers
Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House is featured in an article by Danish architect and Houzz contributor Eric Reinholdt. The article discusses common methods and traits shared by many successful architects. Aspects of form and order, hierarchy, as well as creating rules and knowing when and why to break them are shared.

2015 April 01 – M Magazine: Down by the River
Bruns Architecture’s Rock River House is featured in the April Home and Garden issue of M Magazine. The article, titled “Taking Flight”, highlights this modern home’s strong organic influence that marries nature with comfort.

2015 March 26 – Bruns Architecture on Contemporist
Bruns Architecture’s Rock River House is featured today on Contemporist.com, the online publication that celebrates contemporary culture and focuses on architecture, design, and art.

2015 January 19 – Bruns Architecture receives Best of Houzz 2015 for Design
Houzz (www.houzz.com), the leading platform for home remodeling and design, today announced the community’s picks for Best Of Houzz 2015. Bruns Architecture was voted by the Houzz community as a winner of the Best of Houzz 2015 awards in their Design category.

2014 November 14 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Design Award
Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2014 ALA Silver Design Award for their Fieldstone House project. The national ALA Design Awards program is an annual showcase of the power of design.

2014 November 01 – Midvale Courtyard House on the cover of Qualified Remodeler Magazine
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured in a Qualified Remodeler article by Allen Barry titled “Home Reborn – An addition and radical rehab of an old home produces a total transformation”. In this “Design Solutions” feature, Stephen Bruns discusses how through a collection of surgical edits and proportionate interventions, the house was completely changed experientially.

2014 September 09 – Houzz feature: 8 Things Successful Architects and Designers Do
Bruns Architecture appears in a Houzz.com editorial by Eric Reinholdt titled “8 Things Successful Architects and Designers Do”. In this feature, Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House is used to demonstrate how architects establish order and create hierarchy.

2014 May 07 – Bruns Architecture wins AIA Design Award
Bruns Architecture receives a Merit Award for their Fieldstone House project by the 2014 Design Awards program of AIA Wisconsin. This year’s award winning projects demonstrate the power of architecture to positively affect the environments in which we live. Fieldstone House was one of ten projects to receive an Award. This year’s projects were honored for their innovative and environmentally sensitive design solutions, as well as for their attention to detail and creative use of materials.

2014 April 1 – M Magazine: Natural Connection
Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House is featured in the April Home and Garden issue of M Magazine. The article, titled “On The Edge”, highlights the house’s strong connection to its site as well as the glacial influence on the design.

2014 March 28 – Fieldstone House Tour on Houzz
Titled “Fieldstone Divides and Connects a Wisconsin Home”, contributing author John Hill provides a Houzz Tour of Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House today. The accompanying article provides a guided tour of the exterior and interior spaces with additional information and interview commentary.

2014 March 22 – Fieldstone House on Freshome
Freshome, a weblog devoted to uncovering and sharing the latest and greatest products in Architecture and Design, features Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House in a piece titled “Encircled by Nature: Minimalist Fieldstone House in Wisconsin”

2014 January 06 – Top 10 on Archello
Selected from their worldwide readership of over 500,000 architects, designers and fans, Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House was one of top 10 most like projects on archello.com.

2013 December 07 – Bruns Architecture on Contemporist
Bruns Architecture’s Fieldstone House is featured today on Contemporist.com, the online publication that celebrates contemporary culture and focuses on architecture, design, and art.

2013 November 07 – Bruns Architecture on Archello
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured today on Archello, the online platform for architecture and design, dedicated to discovering and publishing projects and products.

2013 October 18 – Midvale Courtyard House in The Capital Times
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured today in an article by Lindsay Christians in The Capital Times.

2013 October 16 – Bruns Architecture on ArchDaily
ArchDaily.com, the world’s most visited architecture website, features Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House in today’s Selected Works.

2013 October 10 – Midvale Courtyard House featured on Houzz
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured today in an article by editorial staff writer Mitchell Parker on Houzz.com. In the article titled “Houzz Tour: Intimacy Meets Openness in Wisconsin” Parker captures the history and story of this transformative project through interviews with the owners and architect.

2013 October 04 – Midvale Courtyard House on Freshome
Freshome, a weblog devoted to uncovering and sharing the latest and greatest products in Architecture and Design, features Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House in a piece titled “Warm Elegance Defining the Brand New Midvale Courtyard House in Wisconsin”

2013 September 30 – Bruns Architecture on Contemporist
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured today on Contemporist.com, the online publication that celebrates contemporary culture and focuses on architecture, design, and art.

2013 September 30 – Bruns Architecture on 1 kindesign
Bruns Architecture’s Midvale Courtyard House is featured today on onekindesign.com, the online interior design and architecture website focused on inspiring creativity and spreading fresh ideas across the globe.

2013 September 23 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Gold Design Award
Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2013 ALA Gold Design Award for their Midvale Courtyard House project. Midvale Courtyard House is one of five projects to receive the national gold honor from the Association of Licensed Architects this year.

2013 July 18 – Bluff House on Modern Midwest
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House was featured as house of the day on modernmidwest,com, an online publication dedicated to celebrating modern living in the Midwest.

2013 June 27 – New Milwaukee office Open House
This evening we held an open house in our new Milwaukee studio. The event was our opportunity to show a number of clients, colleagues, friends and guests our new space, recent work, and provide a glimpse into our thought process. Our original Baraboo studio remains our rural design studio and the location of our workshop where we fabricate larger mock-ups and models

2012 June 27 – Rock River House breaks ground
The third project in less than two weeks has broken ground on a breathtaking site along the Rock River. The concurrent starts of several projects have kept us all quite busy, and we are pleased to begin seeing these projects under construction.

2012 June 25 – Demolition begins at M-H House
In preparation for a significant addition and renovation, demolition has started on a mid-century diamond in the rough in south central Wisconsin.

2012 June 15 – Fieldstone House breaks ground
The first of several 2012 projects breaks ground in southeastern Wisconsin.

2012 March 09 – Bruns Architecture in US 50 Architects: Residential + Planning
Presenting one architectural firm from each state in the country, Bruns Architecture represents Wisconsin in this collection of exemplary American residential design. 316-323. Sinovcic, Damir: Design Book Press.

2011 November – Madison Magazine’s House of the Month
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House is featured as Madison Magazine’s House of the Month in author Katie Vaughn’s piece titled “A Vision in Minimalism”. Photographer Beth Skogan captures images of the home and its owners amidst the bluff’s fall color.

2011 September 05 – Bruns Architecture on ArchDaily
ArchDaily.com, the world’s most visited architecture website, features Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House project.

2011 May 04 – Bruns Architecture wins AIA Design Award
Bruns Architecture receives an Honor Award for their Bluff House project by the 2011 Design Awards program of AIA Wisconsin. Recognized for overall excellence in architectural design, Bluff House was one of five projects to receive an Honor Award. This year’s projects were honored for their innovative and environmentally sensitive design solutions, as well as for their careful attention to detail and creative use of materials.

2011 February 08 – “Bluff House” in 150 Best Eco House Ideas
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House is featured in this showcase of the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally-friendly design. 318-323. Serrats, Marta: Collins Design, Harper Collins Publishers.

2010 September – Green Palette Project Gallery
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House is added to the myGreenPalette.com green project gallery.

2010 May 28 – Bruns Architecture launches new website
After an extensive redesign, Bruns Architecture launches their new website. Within an ordered structure, the site offers improved navigation and becomes a forum for the firm to post news updates and featured projects.

2010 May 1 – Bruns Architecture receives 2010 ED+C Excellence in Design Awards Honorable Mention
Bruns Architecture is pleased to receive an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Environmental Design + Construction Excellence in Design Awards for their Bluff House project. The award program recognizes projects that demonstrate outstanding sustainable design techniques.

2010 April 12 – Bruns Architecture on Architecture Innovations
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House is featured on archinnovation.com, the online architecture magazine that features innovative directions in contemporary Architecture.

2010 March 15 – Bruns Architecture announces collaboration with EcoSteel
Bruns Architecture is recognized in the EcoSteel design partner program. EcoSteel is a provider of custom, prefabricated building systems. This design collaboration adds another method of efficient construction to the Bruns Architecture material palette.

2010 February 1 – Bluff House on Studio 5555
Bluff House is featured today on the German online design magazine Studio 5555, internationally posting Architektur, Design, and Art.

2010 January 21 – Bruns Architecture on Home and House Design
Bruns Architecure’s Bluff House project is featured today on Home and House Design, the online collection of modern, minimalist, and eco friendly architectural design for your home inspiration.

2010 January 20 – Bluff House on Architeria
Bluff House is presented today on Architeria.com, the online modern architectural building and house design gallery.

2010 January 19 – Bruns Architecture on Contemporist
Bruns Architecture’s Bluff House is featured today on Contemporist.com, the online publication presenting new products and projects in the world of contemporary design.

2009 December 8 – Feature article in BNR
Bruns Architecture is featured in the business section of the Baraboo News Republic. The article calls attention to Bruns Architecture’s philosophpy on design and the industry, as well as a discussion on the business model the firm has established.

2009 October 17 – Bruns Architecture receives ALA Gold Design Award Bruns Architecture is honored to receive a 2009 ALA Gold Design Award for their Bluff House project. Bluff House is one of four projects to receive the national gold honor from the Association of Licensed Architects this year.

2009 September 17 – Bruns Architecture visits Taliesin
Bruns Architecture spends two days at the Taliesin School of Architecture in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Participating in the summer 2009 semester final Box presentation and crits as a visiting professional, Stephen Bruns joins the faculty in reviewing the students’ design work.