Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a community of architects and craftspeople in the American West.

Established in 1997 by John Sparano, FAIA, and Anne Mooney, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, the practice has been consistently recognized for design excellence, has received over 50 design and honor awards, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions around the world. Sparano + Mooney Architecture was named the 2017 American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Regional Architectural Firm of the Year and the 2013 American Institute of Architects Utah Architectural Firm of the Year. A monograph of the firm’s work titled Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working has been published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin: 2022).

Together with a dedicated team, Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a collective of architects, clients, colleagues, makers and like-minded peers that shares a passion for design and sustainability in all that they do. The practice has grown steadily since its inception through the process of rigorous critical thinking and the completion of a wide range of architectural solutions. Carefully crafted at multiple scales, for various functions and to elicit a multitude of emotions, their work catalyzes the idiosyncrasies of each project to create a concept-driven design in the pursuit of architecture true to its time, place and circumstances. From micro off-the-grid projects, adaptive re-use of historic structures, and new-build institutional, commercial, cultural and worship buildings, to residential, civic, recreation and mixed-use projects, as well as master planning and urban design ventures, their portfolio of contemporary design work can be found throughout California, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico and beyond.

The firm’s ethos is one of limitless exploration and an unwavering commitment to the heuristic process in creating architecture rooted firmly in meaning. With each project, the practice examines new ways to harmonize a regulating concept with the existing conditions of a site, program and fundamental building functions. Rather than imposing preconceived notions onto unique sites and environmental conditions, the eccentricities of any given program and site become the point of departure for that foundational idea. While anchoring each work in its specific circumstance, Sparano + Mooney Architecture endeavors to obtain a more meaningful response to one of the essential questions of architecture: Why?