Skia Design LLC Information

Skia Design was founded in 2001 with one goal firmly in mind: to make superb residential design more accessible and more affordable to more people. The founder and designer, Marc Manley, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1985. From then until 2001 he cut his design teeth in mostly commercial and institutional architecture, obtaining in 1992 a license to practice architecture in the State of Washington.* In addition to working for various architectural firms, he free-lanced residential work, took some time to attend a seminary in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Belgium, helping a faith-based group establish a media center. While living in Portland Marc met his wife and started a family there. In 1999, looking for a place to settle down, they relocated to the bucolic New River Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. For two years Marc worked with a Blacksburg architect (again mostly commercial work) before starting Skia Design.