About

UltraBarrio engages urban design and architecture projects that address the challenges of our urbanizing environment. Our central goal is to shape cities to be more civic, sustainable, and generationally connected by design.

Through rigorous research, observation, and collaboration with communities and stakeholders, our work radically transforms the civic realm by building capacity for neighborhoods and cities to thrive; generating conditions that are never static, always nimble, and differently magnetic.

Identified as Architect Magazine’s ‘Next Progressives’ Firm, UltraBarrio is noteworthy for design excellence in uniting architecture, urban design, and landscape with placemaking and community visions. As recipients of the prestigious Architect’s Newspaper ‘Best of Design’ Awards, AIA Texas Society of Architects Design Award and AIA Houston Urban Design Awards, our work seeks to coax out and celebrate the specificities of the context that we work within.

Selected by MIT Alumni Association - Firm to Feature

Services

Our services address a range of complexity from the practical to the visionary—operating at many scales of design that include architecture, urban design, urban strategies, parks, open spaces and master planning.

Partnerships

We deeply value the strong relationships we build with our clients and collaborators. We work for city agencies, non-profits, and developers; and we work with engineers, economists, planners, landscape architects, designers, fabricators, and artists.

Clients

City of Houston

City of Pasadena

City of Seabrook

City of South Houston

Connect Community

Harris County Precinct 2

Harris County Precinct 4

Houston Downtown Management District

Houston-Galveston Area Council

Houston Land Bank

Kaldis Development Interests

METRO

Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority

Texas General Land Office

The Nature Conservancy

The University of Texas System

Collaborators

AECOM

Cannon

Decon

Entech

Hagerty Consulting

Halff Associates

Huitt-Zollars

Rootlab

STV, Inc.

TEI Planning + Design

The Goodman Corporation

Walter P Moore

WSP, Inc.