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History
The practice was founded in August 2013 by Ann Nisbet and based in Glasgow. Nisbet had previously worked at the Glasgow office of Dualchas Architects for eight years before setting up her own firm.

By 2017, the practice had two full-time staff members and a network of freelance workers employed on a project-by-project basis. In a 2023 interview with Architects' Journal, it was reported that the firm had grown to a team of four, with three architects and one architectural assistant.

Projects
The practice focuses on rural projects, often single houses or small housing developments, taking inspiration from architects such as Brian MacKay-Lyons, Glenn Murcutt, Rick Joy, and Olson Kundig.

Newhouse of Auchengree
Ann Nisbet Studio's first completed major project was Newhouse of Auchengree in North Ayrshire, set in the Garnock Valley between Dalry and Beith. Built in X for retired GP Mike Law and his wife Sally, a pharmacist, the house cost £600,000. According to Nisbet, the project was one of the first single houses in the countryside to get planning permission under the new North Ayrshire planning guidelines.

The house is designed as a 'cluster' of spaces, arranged around a three-sided courtyard to the east to provide shelter from the area's south-westerly winds. The house's five bedrooms are split between the main two-storey building and an annex with two bedrooms. Nisbet also designed the kitchen area using IKEA units.

Nisbet described the house as "stand[ing] like a sculpture in the landscape", and "bold without being showy". An article in the RIBA Journal called the house "a pleasure to experience" and "admirable in its confident abstraction and honest practicality".

It won an RIAS Award, a RIBA National Award. It was announced as part of the shortlist for RIBA House of the Year 2017 on Grand Designs in November 2017.

Cuddymoss
The Cuddymoss house was nominated for