Following more than twenty-six years of professional experience, Kevin Welch earned his Hawaiʻi architectural license and founded Arcturus to create a practice centered on thoughtful design, enduring relationships, and architecture of lasting significance.
After more than twenty-six years of professional practice, countless collaborations, and the privilege of contributing to award-winning projects across the western United States and Hawaiʻi, Arcturus was founded with a simple purpose: to create a practice built around thoughtful design, lasting relationships, and an unwavering commitment to quality.
The launch of Arcturus followed another significant milestone, earning licensure as an architect in the State of Hawaiʻi. While professional licensure represents years of education, experience, and examination, it also carries something more meaningful: the responsibility to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the communities we serve.
For founder Kevin Welch, becoming licensed in Hawaiʻi represented the culmination of a journey that began more than two decades earlier. Throughout his career, he has worked on projects ranging from luxury custom residences and hospitality environments to commercial and mixed-use developments, collaborating with talented architects, consultants, builders, and craftspeople along the way. Each project contributed lessons that ultimately shaped the vision for Arcturus.
The firm's founding was never simply about independence. It was about creating the freedom to pursue architecture with intention, to invest deeply in relationships, remain personally involved throughout the design process, and dedicate the time required to produce thoughtful, enduring work.
Named after one of the brightest stars visible above the Hawaiian Islands, Arcturus represents guidance, exploration, and the pursuit of excellence. Those principles continue to shape every project the firm undertakes.
Today, Arcturus focuses on high-end residential, boutique hospitality, and thoughtfully crafted commercial environments throughout Hawaiʻi. While the practice is young, it is built upon more than a quarter century of professional experience, bringing together technical expertise, design excellence, and a commitment to creating architecture that enriches both people and place.
The founding of Arcturus marks not the beginning of a career, but the beginning of a new chapter—one dedicated to building a legacy of thoughtful architecture inspired by the people, places, and landscapes that make Hawaiʻi extraordinary.
