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Resilient Structures, Beautiful Spaces.

Fortress Architecture Studio is a boutique firm in Greenville, SC, serving clients from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. We are passionate about the creative process of architecture and construction, and we enjoy collaborating with our clients and the various trades to provide a successful building process. We would be honored to work with you to create your next project!

Julie Keyes

Architect / Project Manager

email: Julie@FortressArchitecture.com

phone: 864 - 420 - 0378

Julie is a registered Architect in SC and has experience designing residential and commercial architecture projects in the Lowcountry and the Upstate of South Carolina. She is a Partner and Project Architect for Fortress Architecture Studio, and works on everything from high-end custom residential and commercial projects, to smaller home renovations and additions.
Julie enjoys the creative process of designing spaces to meet clients' goals, and as project manager, she listens to and coordinates with everyone involved to ensure a smooth process from beginning to end.
She graduated from Clemson University school of architecture, worked in Charleston for Cummings and McCrady Architects, and then returned to get her professional degree at North Carolina State University's School of Architecture. She has also worked for other prominent architecture firms in Greenville and Charleston, SC, including Chris Rose Architects and Johnston Design Group.
She is thankful that the field of architecture has provided a challenging outlet for her creativity, and loves seeing a design realized with her clients.
Julie and Scott got married in 2015. In 2022, they moved from Johns Island back to Julie's hometown of Greenville, SC, where they live with their daughter and son.

Scott Keyes

Architecture / Technology / Graphics

Scott is the other partner at Fortress Architecture Studio and he sees the importance of technology in the design process, and has a passion for incorporating technology to help clients envision, and then realize their dream projects. While technologically-forward in our design process, everything remains human-crafted and we do not use generative AI.
In 2014, after graduating architecture school and several years of working in Charleston architecture firms, Scott founded a design studio called Steel Marsh, which worked on residential architecture projects as well as designing and building steel and wood furniture and light fixtures. In 2018, Steel Marsh grew with the addition of Julie Keyes as Partner and began to focus more on custom residential architecture throughout the Lowcountry and the Upstate of South Carolina. In 2022, Steel Marsh relocated from Charleston to Greenville, SC and they evolved their name to Fortress Architecture Studio, which has a focus on designing unique, beautiful, and resilient buildings.
Scott founded ChronoTecture Game Studio in 2020 as a side project for the architecture firm. He utilizes his architectural design and technological curiosity to create digital worlds for people around the real world to play in and explore. He also enjoys designing video game worlds to explore in Virtual Reality, where the buildings he designs aren't subject to limitations like gravity. He is currently working on a trilogy of video games called ChronoTecture. The technological work and research done on the video game also translates to our architectural work through enhanced rendering techniques, flythrough videos, and virtual reality walkthroughs of the projects that we design.
He graduated from Clemson University School of Architecture in 2012 and NCSU School of Architecture in 2014. He also studied at Clemson architecture studios in New York City and Barcelona, Spain. He minored in Fine Arts with a focus on modern sculpture using steel at Clemson.
He was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, and studied both traditional and modern design while working for local architects, Neil Stevenson Architects and Glenn Keyes Architects.

"Michael and I worked with Julie at Fortress Architecture Studio for our rebuild. She is such a chic and cool professional person who magically incorporated every single request. She listens! I recommend her to everyone who asks." - Carly D.