Barron-Wike Michael Architect AIA

Specialties

For more than 25 years, Michael Barron-​Wike, A.I.A., has been creating environmentally responsible homes that merge with and reflect the rugged beauty of California’s Mendocino coast. And now, thanks to today’s easier communication methods and 3D CADD technologies that Michael has helped to pioneer, the firm can design custom projects for distant clients throughout the world.

History

Established in 1989.

Principal architect and owner, Michael Barron-​Wike, had extensive experience in construction after his education at the University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design. He uses this experience to quickly form an understanding with the best contractors in the area to create meticulously detailed designs. Over thirty years of design practice with the earliest completely self-​sufficient, energy-​efficient designed residence created in 1984. A recent residence was selected as a 2009 Finalist amongst 8 other architects chosen from applicants from over 40 different countries for the international design Spark Awards competition. That residence is scheduled for completion at the end of 2011.

Meet the Business Owner

Michael B.

Business Owner

Michael has been at the vanguard of the «green» design movement since its inception. He studied with the pioneers of this new school of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and has gone on to lead residential and commercial projects in British Columbia and throughout California. His immersion in California’s remote coastal regions has informed his aesthetic and practical approach to design, both of which emphasize comfortable, elegant, human-​scale designs that work in harmony with the natural surroundings.