Our Story
A practice built around ideas
Parco Studio is a deliberately focused architecture practice based in California. We bring together the curiosity of a small studio with the rigor, experience, and technical capacity of a large-scale practice.
We believe architecture benefits from depth: time to think, freedom to question assumptions, and the discipline to pursue an idea through every scale of a project. This requires both imagination and command—an ability to move between the conceptual and the technical without treating them as separate pursuits.
The studio is structured accordingly: small by design, deeply engaged, and built around the direct involvement of its principal on every project.
Principal
Ben Parco
AIA, LEED AP
Parco Studio is led by architect Ben Parco, whose work spans more than three decades and over 20 million square feet of projects for clients including Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Kaiser Permanente, E&J Gallo Winery, and San Francisco International Airport as well as private residences throughout California, Hawaii, and the Mountain West.
While the scale and typology of the work have changed over the years, the underlying pursuit has remained consistent: understanding how light, structure, material, and daily life can be composed into places that feel both inevitable and full of wonder.
Today the studio focuses primarily on private residential work, bringing the systems thinking and coordination of complex commercial architecture to the intimacy of the home.
- $2B+Construction Value
- 50+Awards & Publications
- 20M+Square Feet of Projects
- 30+Years of Practice
Recognition
Green Building Advisor to Al Gore · Awards & Publications
The Parco Schema
Every discipline develops its own way of understanding complexity
In architecture, we have developed the Parco Schema—a conceptual model that helps us study each project through multiple, interconnected lenses.
The Schema