Last updated on May 27th, 2024 at 02:37 pm
Missoula, Montana is an excellent location for anybody looking to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life while not entirely cutting themselves off from the rest of the world. The city is a beautiful location with a good quality of life, numerous recreational options, lovely terrain, and genuinely exceptional schools.
Our list includes some of the best residential architects in the area. Whether you’re a current resident, would like to improve your home, or plan to move, you’ll find someone who can help you meet your goals here. Our editorial team selected these firms carefully, you can be confident that they can make your dream home a reality.
OZ Architects
PC 531 N Higgins Avenue, Missoula, MT 59802
OZ Architects, established in 1992, specializes in architectural design and drafting for clients in Missoula and Bozeman. The firm is dedicated to offering high-quality architectural design services; it takes pride in each project it handles. OZ is likewise devoted to producing intricate designs and engaging settings. Even more crucial for its expert team is that its clients are satisfied with their project and that its efforts benefit the shared community.
OZ Architects comprises professionals holding memberships with the American Institute of Architects. The firm is also affiliated with the U.S. Green Building Council, is an ACHA Certified Healthcare Architect, and is rated by LEED AP for Building Design and Construction (LEED AP BD+C). Under the leadership of principal architects Marty Noyd & Ginger Palm, and Senior Project Manager & Partner Rex Thompson, the firm’s goal is to help transform its clients’ dreams and ideas into reality.
MMW Architects
125 West Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802
MMW Architects, founded in 1997, is dedicated to contributing to the built environment while working in sync with nature. The firm’s projects, which serve Missoula and surrounding communities, are adapted to the terrain, the climate, and the cultural and historic environment—they reflect the underlying characteristics of the time and place. The firm builds locations that improve everyday life routines and pursuits through beauty and efficiency, by focusing on architectural design and drawing.
Angie Lipski is the firm’s principal architect, a Missoula native who returned home after practicing in San Francisco, residing abroad, and traveling worldwide. Her goal is to design spaces that matter, mark time, illustrate art and craft, and dance lightly on the earth while supporting life enjoyment. Under her direction, the firm holds affiliations with the U.S. Green Building Council and the Montana Contractors Association.
In2itive Architecture LLC
127 E Main Sreet, Suite 302, Missoula, MT 59802
In2itive Architecture LLC is a Missoula-based architecture practice dedicated to improving people’s lives by emphasizing the human connection with the environment and one another. Its design is geared to people who will experience it from beginning to end and beyond. The organization also pays close attention to the details that make its clients’ lives more colorful and natural. Its services include preliminary programming, schematic design, design development, pricing, and permits. In2itive serves Missoula and surrounding areas.
Under the oversight of Marie Wilson as principal architect, In2itive also aims to develop a team from which solid projects are conceived and brought to fruition with its clients, engineers, partners, and contractors. The firm knows that completing construction on time decreases stress and raises the end-of-project budget, which, by definition, helps create a successful project.
a&e Design
222 North Higgins Avenue, Missoula, MT 59802
Since its founding in 1973, A&E Design has provided architectural design and drafting services to customers in Missoula, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, and Helena. Its integrated method promotes efficiency throughout the design process and delivers a complete, client-driven approach from the architecture phase through brand creation. The business can incorporate this into any design project, large or small.
A&E’s culture represents who they are as people and as a team. It is a multidisciplinary design studio entrenched in heritage yet motivated by innovation, and always guided by its fundamental beliefs and vision. Under the supervision of Bill DuBeau as principal architect, it seeks to create a positive impact on each other, its environment, and the communities it serves—all while creating the best collaborative design experience possible for its clients. The firm’s experts are LEED-accredited professionals and are members of the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council.
Briggs Architecture
265 W Front, Missoula, MT 59802
Briggs Architecture is a Montana-based architectural design practice motivated by nature and environment and drawn to the aesthetics of classic architecture. The firm has experience in designing a wide range of building types, but the firm’s staff love the specific challenges and rewards of residential, ranch, lodge, and resort architecture. Although the business is situated in Missoula, it has performed work across the United States. The firm is under the direction of Don Briggs.
The studio is frequently commissioned to create accessories that fit into the greater architectural fabric of a project. That includes light fixtures, furniture, doors, and other building-specific elements. The firm’s holistic design approach creates an environment where the parts combine to provide a rich and dynamic whole. Briggs Architecture’s experts are LEED-accredited professionals and members of the U.S. Green Building Council.
LOCI Architecture + Design
416 E Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802
Loci Architecture + Design is a Missoula-based firm specializing in architectural design and drafting for its clients in and around the city. It finds inspiration from the people that surround the firm and the environment in which it lives. It understands that excellent design has a beneficial influence on the community and changes the lives of individuals impacted by its work. This obligation is not taken lightly by the firm’s team.
Luke Jackson and Sarah Ayers worked as colleagues and friends for several years before launching Loci Architecture + Design in 2019. Both founders were raised in Missoula and spent their childhoods exploring the breathtaking landscapes of the western United States. Luke and Sarah are dedicated to their community and Montana. Individually and collectively, the firm is motivated to bring change by devoting time, resources, and design knowledge to social and environmental initiatives.
GAVIN-hanks
1605 Stephens Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801
GAVIN-hanks is a Missoula, Montana-based full-service architecture firm. Its guiding principle is that excellent design benefits communities. So the company employs a collaborative approach that cultivates trust and dedication to common goals among all its design team members. The consistent result of this technique is a building that depicts the design aesthetics of everyone engaged, not just the architect.
Under the direction of Vincent Gavin as principal architect, sound design and commitment to clients are what GAVIN-hanks is all about. GAVIN-hanks does not create projects that are architectural monuments. Instead, it constructs initiatives that benefit the community. With its hard work and proven competence in the industry, the firm’s work has been recognized with honors such as the 2017 and 2018 Best General Contractor by the Missoula Independent‘s Best of Missoula Awards.
JCM Architecture
319 W Pine, Suite A Missoula, MT 59802
JCM Architecture, founded in 1995, provides complete services in architecture and planning. The firm’s design experience includes planning, site analysis, malls, retail tenant improvements, historic preservation, hospitality, schools, custom residences, corporate offices, banks, retail buildings, commercial and tenant improvements, libraries, medical facilities, and manufacturing facilities. The firm also has extensive experience with a construction company, giving its staff insight into how its design decisions affect construction.
JCM’s principal architect is Jeff C. Maphis. He came to Montana from Boulder, Colorado, in 1978 to attend Montana State University and decided to stay. Montana suited him because he grew up in the Rocky Mountains, and he and his wife relocated to Missoula in June 1983. After seven years of experience with two local businesses, he launched JCM Architecture in June 1995. The firm’s office is in Missoula, Montana, and serves a local, regional, and national client base. Jeff’s 39 years of architectural expertise include a solid fine arts background and job experience with architectural, engineering, and construction organizations. He applies these broad talents to the firm’s initiatives.
Studio Modera
101 E Broadway Street, # 203, Missoula, MT 59802
Studio Modera is a Missoula-based firm offering architectural design, landscape design, drafting, and master planning services for its clientele in Missoula, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, and Helena. Since its inception in 2004, it has been awarded the MBIA Sustainability Award in 2012 and the Mountain Living Responsible Development Award.
Pat Supplee graduated from Columbia University in 1982 and worked for Martin Rich Architect and FxFowle in New York City before founding her own business. Pat moved to Missoula in 1997 to pursue her interests in domestic design and the great outdoors. She spent several years working at OZ Architects, acquiring knowledge of the local construction industry and western Montana in general. Pat re-established her practice, Pat Supplee Architect in 2004 and renamed it Studio Modera in the spring of 2007. Studio Modera is devoted to constructing remarkable houses for Western Montana, emphasizing sustainable, modern residential architecture.
Hoffmann Morgan & Associates
123 N 2nd Street W, Suite 1, Missoula, MT 59802
Hoffmann Morgan & Associates is a full-service architecture and planning company serving Missoula, Greater Montana, and the Rocky Mountain West. Principal architect Michael Morgan pushes the HMA mission to meet the needs and budgets of the client as its top priority. Michael was raised in the Pacific Northwest as the son of a third-generation mason, where he developed an interest in architecture. He earned a Masters of Design from the University of Idaho in 1987, then trained in Portland and Idaho before becoming the head of his Sun Valley architecture company for 15 years.
Over the last 34 years, the firm has collaborated with clients and regulatory authorities to develop commercial, institutional, and light industrial projects. It’s also worked on subsidized housing, market-rate affordable housing, middle-income housing, infill townhomes, more than 3000 multi-family housing units, and over 800 single-family detached homes ranging from simple financed homes to custom luxury estates. The firm has also performed historic preservation.
Adler Architects
210 N Higgins Avenue, Suite 334, Missoula, MT 59802
Founded over three decades ago, Adler Architects builds Historic, Residential, Commercial, Planning, Institutional, and Accessibility projects for its clients in Missoula and nearby cities. Its Styled Ranch and New Traditional developments are consistently praised by its clients, a product of the team’s combined effort and the leadership of its founder, Steven Adler.
Steven is highly involved in the community, and aside from being an architect, he also has decades of community participation with the historic preservation advisory commission, design review board, and several planning and civic developments. Adler Architects is a lithe, service-oriented firm, able to take on projects based upon the projects’ merits. Over the years, it has gained various honors from different organizations, including the Montana Governor’s Award for Excellence in Design, the State Preservation Award for the Missoula Historic Preservation Advisory Commission, and 5 Local Preservation Awards for Restoration, Rehabilitation, and Addition.
Rocking M Design Architecture
PC 2124 Greenough Drive, Missoula, MT 59802
Rocking M Design was established in 1992 to provide professional architectural services in Missoula and the surrounding areas. It highlights the combination of building and site design to produce suitably created settings that meet both the client’s demands and the site’s natural attributes through effective resource use. The business promotes site and building designs that are responsive to existing natural systems and provide long-term value. And above all, these designs satisfy the senses.
Rocking M Design, led by Terre Meinershagen, offers a high degree of individualized service to individual customers and high-quality design solutions that are distinctive to each project. Terre offers full-service planning, architectural design, and construction management. He has specialist knowledge dealing with big and small projects in rural and urban settings, collaborating with customers to achieve their goals and provide the best value for their investment. For nearly three decades, the fundamental values of effective communication, high-quality design, and attention to detail have driven the firm’s work.
NC Design Studio
235 North 1st Street West, Suite B, Missoula, MT 59802
NC Design Studio is a Missoula-based architecture business specializing in residential and commercial projects. Its office, founded in 2009, is small and focuses on captivating intellectual design. Its significant building expertise enables it to take an open and truthful approach to each design project. NC Design Studio listens, making clients a part of the design process.
NC Design Studio’s approach always begins with a profound comprehension of what its customers desire and an awareness of the value of any existing resource, whether it be a structure or a piece of land. Under Nicholas Cole’s oversight, the firm sets a precedent for architecture in the Missoula and the Flathead Valley. It is affiliated with The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and its experts are also members of the American Institute of Architects.
DVG Architecture & Planning P.C.
111 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 420, Missoula, MT 59802
Established in 2013, DVG Architecture & Planning P.C. specializes in green building projects, adaptive reuse solutions, and infill projects. This Missoula-based architectural business provides innovative solutions for challenging projects and offers professional advice, always working directly with customers throughout all phases of construction. It assists with development planning, zoning, site analysis, and more to determine if the site is feasible for its clients’ projects.
DVG Architecture & Planning P.C. creates developments that have a feeling of place and purpose in a community’s distinct setting. They carefully listen to homeowners and contractors to ensure that all issues are addressed. The firm is directed by David V. Gray, who has the experience and understanding to assist any owner in searching for a beautifully designed building.
