Outside The Lines Studio is a partnership. We started designing and building together in 1987, two years after we met at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

Our first design company was called Whitehead & Co. and we built a number of projects ourselves. For several years we followed separate paths and then reunited in Los Angeles, CA to start Outside The Lines Studio.

Colin Summers attended Stuyvesant High School before pursuing his Bachelors of Architecture. He grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village and spent summers in the north woods of Canada. He programs computers (and built a little dot com) as a hobby. He travels constantly with his wife for work.

Robert Whitehead was the valedictorian of Blue Ridge High School in north eastern Pennsylvania. He grew up building houses with his father, a contractor. After securing his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell, and building residential projects for two years as one half of Whitehead & Co. he worked for several traditional architecture firms. Just before returning to work with his first partner, he was employed at The Hillier Group, the third largest architectural firm in the country. In August 2006 Robert was licensed as an architect in the state of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Get in touch: colin@mightycheese.com