About

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

Grounded in rigorous research, close observation, and deep collaboration with communities, municipalities, city agencies, and stakeholders, our work seeks to radically transform the civic realm. We build capacity for neighborhoods and cities to thrive by generating conditions that are never static, always adaptive, and uniquely magnetic.

Recognized as one of Architect Magazine’s “Next Progressives,” UltraBarrio is distinguished by design excellence that bridges architecture, urbanism, and landscape with community visions. Our projects have been honored with the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards, the AIA Texas Society of Architects Design Award, and the AIA Houston Urban Design Awards. Across all scales, our practice is committed to uncovering and articulating the spatial, cultural, and contextual specificities that define each place.

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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

Renfrow+Co.

Rootlab

STV, Inc.

TEI Planning + Design

The Goodman Corporation

Walter P Moore

WSP, Inc.