About.

Growing up in Arizona, Rachel developed a robust appreciation for the joys and challenges of desert-dwelling. After years of traveling to different states and countries, learning from various cultures and people, she returned to Phoenix in order to employ that knowledge while engaging with the built environment. This, in addition to her background in both architecture and engineering, has allowed Rachel to approach design with a unique perspective that she continues to develop and apply to every aspect of a project.

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Rachel joined The Ranch Mine in 2018 shortly after receiving her Masters of Architecture from UCLA. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering from Brown University. She is a registered architect in the state of Arizona.

Tommy was a sailor in a previous life, where he spent his early 20’s traveling the world by sea in the US Navy. His interest in woodworking and design of the built environment led him to the University of Colorado at Boulder where he earned a B.S. in Environmental Design with an emphasis in Architecture. Professionally, Tommy has gained experience in affordable housing, custom millwork and digital fabrication, independent retail, large scale commercial, and eventually found his niche of choice in residential architecture after working on projects throughout NYC, the Hamptons, and Nantucket while at Workshop/APD.

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Driven by the unique opportunity in the west to create an everyday getaway environment for his family, and a newfound appreciation for the Sonoran Desert and the West after growing up in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, he moved back to Phoenix from Brooklyn in the summer of 2020, enthused to get immersed in the flourishing local design community.

Nicole was raised in Southern Louisiana where art classes, folders of unbuilt treehouse designs and a deep curiosity for the region's unique blend of culture, architecture, music, and cuisine were her gateways into the creative world. Hurricane Katrina expanded her understanding of the boundless powers of nature over the built environment, influencing her choice to pursue an architectural education.

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After graduating with a combination BS and MArch from Tulane University, she sought out a new and entirely different locale by moving to Phoenix. She spent over 6 years working in commercial architecture on a varied collection of project types and scales, including multifamily residential, municipal, master planning, adaptive reuse, and behavioral health care.

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Nicole enjoys reading, cooking, and exploring, and has gotten to know the desert intimately through camping, offroading, hiking, and paddleboarding. She joined The Ranch Mine in 2022 and is a registered architect in the state of Arizona.

Benjamin was born and raised in the United Kingdom, where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Lincoln. Ben went on to work with a variety of successful architects in the UK whilst continuing further studies in architecture. His love of travel ultimately led him to the United States and a move to Arizona in 2015.

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Having gained a wide experience in high end residential and commercial projects, both in the US and Europe, his passion for exceptional design continued him on a path to The Ranch Mine in October 2018. Specializing in 3D visualization and representation he became an integral part of any project.

Patty is an Arizona transplant. She moved to Phoenix with her growing family in 2020 seeking out sun, space and the frontier opportunities unique to the American West. Patty was born a midwesterner and has spent much of her life on the east coast. The history, texture and energy of growing up in Vermont and New York informed her continual search for design authenticity, timelessness and placefulness. Eight years spent in Denver, Colorado initially sparked her love for the west.

After exploring the architecture of mixed use, municipal, and workplace design in offices all over the country, she is finally jumping into the world of residential architecture, something she has been passionate about since she was 7 years old, drawing house plans on graph paper.

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Patty holds a BS in Interior Design and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and an MArch from the University of Colorado - Denver. She is a registered architect in the state of New York.

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Geoff grew up in Georgia during a time when houses were being built by the hundreds. Walking through those neighborhoods during construction is when he fell in love with Architecture. It was also during this time that he was first introduced to the desert southwest during a backpacking trip to New Mexico.

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After undergrad and living in Europe, Geoff moved to Oregon for graduate school for a change of pace and scenery. It's here that his passion for mountain biking, trail building, and architecture began to really formulate. He spent a number of years working on projects of all scales and typologies including; digital fabrication, creative office renovations, performing arts centers, multi-family residential, and various mass timber projects. During this time with Lever Architecture, he was able to focus on his original love of residential architecture, working on a number of residential projects over a few years.

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In an attempt to escape the pacific northwest winter, he found himself in Phoenix for a sunny vacation and it's there that his childhood memories of the desert southwest resurfaced and he knew he needed to find his way back there professionally.

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Geoff holds a BS in Architecture from Georgia Tech and a MArch from The University of Oregon.

Originally from the gulf coast of Texas, Morgan grew up wanting to pursue a career in medicine. After service in the Air Force and a bachelor’s in biology, she realized the medical field was perhaps not the right fit. Shortly thereafter, she visited a roommate’s architecture studio, and the rest is history.

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Graduating with a MArch from UTArlington, she left Texas for Los Angeles. Beginning her professional architecture career in LA, she was able to work on a varied selection of projects both national and international.  For the last 10 years, she has been back in Dallas, working on sports arenas, musuems, and NFL Stadia with some residential scattered in between. Her passion is residential architecture, and she is pleased to be working with homeowners again since joining The Ranch Mine in 2022.  In her free time, she enjoys anything outside, renovating her home & yard, good food & music, traveling, and probably every cat she has ever met.  Morgan is a licensed architect and registered interior designer in Texas.

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