Robert Maschke, FAIA

Robert Maschke is the founding principal of Robert Maschke Architects, a Cleveland-based studio whose work has earned national recognition for its rigor, restraint, and quiet sculptural presence. Elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects — the profession's highest honor — Maschke's practice moves with equal authority between intimate residential commissions and civic-scale work.

Little Big House, completed in 2016, has become one of the studio's most widely published projects, recognized by ArchDaily and the international architectural press, and honored with a 2020 Architecture Award. The residence stands as a manifesto for the studio's design ethos: a belief that architecture should reconcile opposing forces — site and program, mass and light, public and private — into a singular, considered whole.

Maschke's body of work continues to shape the architectural conversation in Cleveland and beyond. A 2025 retrospective at the Italian American Museum in Little Italy presented by AIA Cleveland, Body of Work — The Work of Robert Maschke, surveyed two decades of completed projects.