With locations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Devlin Architecture provides full architecture, interior design, and master planning services. We have special expertise in custom residential, multi-family housing and community development. Our clients range from commercial and residential developers to nonprofits, private individuals, and corporations.

We are accustomed to working in a wide variety of settings, from environmentally sensitive green fields to dense city neighborhood sites. We are engaged collaborators with other design professionals to realize complex assignments from our many clients.

THE FOUNDER | DOUGLAS R. DEVLIN, AIA - PRINCIPAL

Mr. Devlin, founder and principal of Devlin Architecture, is a registered architect and urban designer licensed in several states. His career encompasses a wide array of project types including: residential (custom single-family, multi-family of all types including market rate and affordable), commercial, community facilities, professional offices, health care and hospitality. Mr. Devlin has designed master plans for residential neighborhoods as well as mixed-use projects. As an urban designer, his focus lies in community housing design and feasibility analysis for real estate development.

Mr. Devlin earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington.

Services

INTERIOR DESIGN TEAM
NCIDQ CERTIFIED

Our team is experienced in designing and managing numerous medium to large-scale multi-family, custom build residential, and commercial projects locally, nationally, and internationally. With an extensive design portfolio for many Fortune 500 corporate offices, our interior design team has designed for companies including Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, and Deloitte as well as several five-star hotels in Dubai, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

PUBLISHED IN 
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, PERSPECTIVES,
AND TILE DESIGN

ARCHITECTURE TEAM
AIA & LEED CERTIFIED

Our talented architects have collectively over 50 years of experience in all residential typologies from affordable multi-family and military housing to high-end custom design. Trained at Carnegie Mellon University and guided by stakeholder input, they have worked with civic leaders and residents to translate the goals established in these community-led meetings to establish master plans, pattern books, and design guidelines for housing developments throughout the country.

WINNER OF
2014 HUD FEDERAL FRANT
FOR NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION

SITE PLANNING 
TEAM

The site planning team at Devlin has over forty years of experience in commercial and residential, architectural, interior, and graphic design with specialization in historic restoration and renovation, upscale residential design, custom cabinetry, custom furniture, and millwork design. The areas of expertise also include signage/wayfinding, food service design, and space planning.

PUBLISHED IN 
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, PERSPECTIVES,
AND TILE DESIGN

CLIENT FEEDBACK

Doug and his team were amazing - we told them our vision and they created plans and design that met all of our needs and wants. The local historical society on a recent house tour said that we had ‘maintained the Craftsman style of the home with our renovation’...but it was never a Craftsman to begin with! That is how well it is designed. I cannot recommend Devlin Architecture highly enough.

Thanks Doug and team.

CLIENTS FROM RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
PITTSBURGH, PA

The team at Devlin Architecture helped us transform our home into a much more usable space. The team met with us to understand the way we live and use our home. Although we didn't add square footage to the house their plans helped us utilize the house in a more functional way.

We feel like we have doubled the size of our home!

CLIENTS FROM RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
PITTSBURGH, PA

We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Doug. He is an exceptional architect, very detail-oriented, attentive to the project scope, easy to talk to and get a hold of, and a respected member of the community. This is our first home restoration and redesign and we would rehire Doug in a heartbeat.

CLIENTS FROM RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
PITTSBURGH, PA

Doug transformed our unsightly 1970's Michigan ranch into a classic European home of which we can be proud! Doug was able to listen to our goals, translate them through his vast knowledge of building and restoring historical architecture and create the home of our dreams. He always took the time to patiently explain and to educate about every aspect of the project from aesthetic choices to the technical considerations to the costs. I can reflect today that his advice was unerringly great and he helped to guide us to making the best decisions (and avoid some bad ones!). Doug Devlin is what anyone could want in a professional--the highest level of expertise and taste combined with a kind and workmanlike attitude---we can't praise him enough!

CLIENTS FROM RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
YPSILANTI, MI

We hired Devlin Architecture to design a unique, custom house for our lake-view lot. Our team, architect Doug Devlin and designer Mary Olliffe, were a pleasure to work with throughout the entire creative process. Doug was professional, knowledgeable, and patient, and we enjoyed working with him from the very first meeting. He seemed to really listen to our comments and concerns, and he revised our plans until we achieved a design that reflected our own personal "dream house." Mary was also a joy to work with, and she helped us navigate through the somewhat intimidating sea of interior options and features. In situations where my husband wanted one thing and I wanted another, Mary was great at suggesting compromises and alternative solutions.

CLIENTS FROM RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
DEEP CREEK LAKE, MD