Discover Vacation Style Living®
Live Differently. Build Intentionally.
Your home is more than a structure — it’s the space that shapes your well-being, your connections, and your legacy. When it’s intentionally designed around you, life feels clearer, calmer, and more meaningful. This is the place where your next chapter unfolds.
Our Services
Architects Who Build
Since 2001, AV Architects + Builders has been designing and building custom homes for clients throughout Northern Virginia. Partners in business and in life, Tony and Francisca Alonso, are the husband-and-wife team leading this boutique-sized firm.
As longtime Northern Virginia residents, we are local experts in all things residential real estate, design, and construction. Not only can we design and build your custom home, we can even find you the perfect lot to build on. We are an all-in-one solution for our clients and provide a truly turnkey service.
Our Core Values
Design With Purpose
We create homes where every space is intentional and every detail has meaning — thoughtfully shaped around the way you want to live.
Execute With Precision
Our architect-led process ensures that your home is delivered exactly as envisioned, with accuracy, consistency, and expert craftsmanship.
Elevate Wellness
We design for a better life — using natural light, intuitive flow, and strong indoor–outdoor connections to support your well-being every day.
Create a Lasting Legacy
Our homes are timeless, resilient, and made to endure. We craft spaces that will be cherished today and passed on tomorrow.
Serve Through Collaboration
We listen first, guide with clarity, and partner with you throughout the journey — ensuring confidence, connection, and an exceptional experience.
Custom Modern Homes
Vacation Style Living® is our unique design philosophy that emphasizes creating a strong indoor-outdoor connection to link everyday life to nature that results in an intentionally designed home with purpose and curated to your specific lifestyle.
Architect-Led Advantage
The architect-led design-build process is a specialized form of design-build, where the entire project is led by the firm's in-house architect. This approach guarantees a high level of customization, enabling clients to collaborate closely with the architect to bring their unique ideas to life. The architect remains deeply involved throughout the project, ensuring the development of comprehensive architectural and structural plans. By incorporating client selections into the construction plans from the very beginning, the process also delivers highly accurate bids, reducing uncertainties and change orders.
Architecture
Our unique Vacation Style Living design philosophy will make you feel like you're living on vacation all year round with a home that's not only beautiful, but also functional.
Construction
As experienced masterbuilders, we manage and oversee the entire construction process so you don't have to worry about a thing.
NOVA's Top Architect-Led Design-Build Firm
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What Clients Are Saying
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We love the design. We love the uniqueness of our home. Most new homes only differ by the numbers on the mailbox. You cannot tell one from another. We wanted something unique, something special and I feel that is exactly what we got.
Rob Custom Home Design-Build Client
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What could have been an extraordinarily difficult process – essentially building a brand-new home from the inside out – was made easy by Francisca, Tony, and their entire team. Being both the architect and builder, the design and construction flowed seamlessly.
Veronica Modern Renovation Client
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From the very beginning, they took their time and expertise to guide us through every stage of the design and construction process, providing a single point of contact that eliminated the usual stress of dealing with multiple parties. Working with Francisca and Tony was nothing short of a delight.
Catherine Custom Home Design-Build Client
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5 years ago my husband started to look for builders that were building the kind of home we wanted, a vacation home for our daily busy lives with lots of lights, fantastic outdoor spaces and practical living spaces, and we found the perfect architects to help us in that endeavor - AV Architects and Builders.
Andrea Custom Home Design-Build Client
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Once we realized we needed to build to get what we wanted we started researching. We met with Francisca at a spec home they built and one of the first things she told us is that they don't build spaces with no purpose. It's funny, because we were at a huge house in Great Falls, but it still full intimate and purposeful.
Michael Custom Home Design-Build Client
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