The new Fisher Studio is located on a large, verdant property in composition with the client’s existing home in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Gary Fisher is an artist based in Washington D.C. and Rehoboth Beach and this building functions as a professional studio for making art, a gallery for exhibiting paintings and hosting receptions as well as a retreat from the main house. One of very few modernist structures in the region, the building is intended to be both sculptural and ecologically sensitive.

Born in Missouri and raised in Texas, Shawn relocated to the Delaware coast from San Francisco, CA in order to complete his first project, The Phillips “Zen” House, and went on to found the Shawn Ewbank Design Collaborative, currently based in Lewes, DE. He completed a B.B.A. in finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and holds an M.Arch from the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, where he was privileged to learn from pioneers of the ecological design movement and spend three consecutive summer courses living and studying at the Frank Lloyd Wright School at Taliesen West, outside of Scottsdale, AZ. Shawn’s dedication to architecture that explores the link between the human condition and the built environment is strongly influenced by his interest and study of consciousness and the human spirit, ecological design principles and the arts.

Shawn Ewbank Design Collaborative is a boutique design firm based in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region of the United States, serving clients from the East Coast to Texas. Our practice is guided by the idea that Architecture and Art represent a kind of language that goes beyond aesthetics and can both reflect and guide patterns of response (physically and metaphysically), in individuals and societies alike. We undertake the art of architectural design and planning, from concept to implementation, towards refining this language in service of those who may come to interact with the spaces we design. Our intention is to sustainably create habitable artworks for the human spirit and manifest the phenomenon of space in a way that elevates awareness and affirms the desire to conceive a more beautiful way of being.