Eric Reinholdt

Eric Reinholdt

Founder

30X40 Design Workshop

Mount Desert Island, Maine

 

Eric Reinholdt is an award-winning architect, mountain climber, designer, guitar player, paper cutter, blogger and author. He is the founder of 30X40 Design Workshop, a residential design studio bordering Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island just off the coast of Maine. This is where he lives and practices in a modern Longhouse, designed by him with his family.

His architecture is simple, modern, site-specific, and craft-driven. It features local materials and familiar forms juxtaposed against modern, open floor plans with minimalist detailing. The work celebrates humble materials, subtle contrasts and finely crafted details.

About 30×40

“Thirty by Forty Design Workshop was established in June of 2013 in a home Eric Reinholdt designed overlooking Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. In 2016, he designed and constructed the Long Studio to complement the Longhouse and serve as a full-scale model of his design principles and the latest in building science; this is the home for 30X40.

30X40 is a design-focused, residential architecture firm founded by award-winning architect Eric W. Reinholdt. We design simple, modern, site-specific homes. We’re inspired by our rugged surroundings, humble materials, agrarian building forms, and modernist detailing.

Our studio is located on the midcoast of Maine on Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park. While many of our projects are located here in Maine, we accept – and are currently designing – commissions throughout the United States. A thought leader in the architectural community, Eric has authored two books + created the most popular architecture channel on YouTube where he releases new videos each week to more than 330K followers.”

Articles featuring Eric Reinholdt

17 Inspirational Archipreneur Quotes that will Motivate You in 2017

In our interview series Archipreneur Insights we have spoken with more than 40 Archipreneurs. Experts and entrepreneurs in the field of architecture, building and development have answered our questions and giving us insight into their creative and unusual operations of their businesses and projects. From these interviews we want to share with you the most inspirational […]

How to Productize Architectural Services

Are you stuck in the endless cycle of reinventing your service with every new project? Tired of negotiations, meetings and writing proposals? There is an effective way to optimize your design-based business that will allow you to finally stop wasting precious time. Productizing architectural services will enable you to streamline your procedures and create assets […]

How To Start Your Own Architecture Firm With Eric Reinholdt

This week’s interview is with Eric Reinholdt the founder of 30X40 Design Workshop from Maine, USA. Eric is also passionate about combining architecture with entrepreneurship, a union of which led him to write his book, Architect + Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business. You may like to read […]

Architect+Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Building, Branding, and Marketing Your Startup Design Business

Are you thinking about starting your own practice of architecture? Do you even know where to begin, or how? Most business books won’t help you in that special field of starting a design business. Eric Reinholdt once had the same problem. This is why he wrote his own handbook, packed with tips and advice he […]

Quotes from Eric Reinholdt

  • "I’m truly excited about the possibilities confronting architects today. I feel fortunate to be practicing now at this crossroads of technological innovation and globalization."
  • "Start today…! I suffered from analysis paralysis for a long time, fearing I’d never be able to save enough working capital to make a run at starting a business."
  • "You try things, fail, pivot, and try again. Once you find the thing that works, you build on those ideas, add features and start to scale it up."
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