SPARANO + MOONEY ARCHITECTURE is a collective of designers and craftspeople with offices in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. We create compelling spaces that connect people with their communities and landscape, and are committed to offering sustainable, contemporary architecture to clients throughout the American West who care deeply about design.
CA: 323/221.6600 UT: 801/746.0234 E: info@sparanomooney.com
Our architects and designers are experts at helping develop architecture that will serve generations to come on complex sites throughout the western mountain region. Whether a new landmark building for your cultural institution or a legacy home for your family, our California or Utah architects will help you realize your vision through thoughtfully-considered and carefully-executed designs, delivered through a collaborative process honed over more than 25 years of practice.
Our portfolio of contemporary design work can be found throughout California, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and beyond. A wide range of sustainable architecture solutions are carefully crafted at multiple scales, from micro off-the-grid projects, to sophisticated new-build residential architecture and adaptive re-use of historic structures, to new institutional, cultural and worship buildings, as well as mixed-use, master planning and urban design projects.
Please contact us to discuss the realization of a home for your cultural institution, non-profit, place of worship or your family’s legacy residential estate.
HISTORY OF OUR ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
Sparano + Mooney Architecture was established in 1997 by John Sparano and Anne Mooney and is now under the leadership of the founding partners along with Ludwing Juarez, Nate King and Seth Striefel. The practice has been consistently recognized for design excellence and has received over 50 design and honor awards. Sparano + Mooney Architecture was named the 2017 American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Region Architectural Firm of the Year and the 2013 American Institute of Architects Utah Architectural Firm of the Year.
John Sparano, FAIA, has served as the President of the local chapter of the AIA and has won both the Bronze and the Silver medals for his achievements in architectural practice, the highest honors given in the region. John was elevated to fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 2015. Anne Mooney, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, served on the Board of Directors of the AIA and as co-chair of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE). She was named one of the Top Women in Architecture in 2020 by Mountain Living magazine, was awarded the Silver Medal by the AIA Western Mountain Region in 2021, and was elevated to fellowship in the AIA in 2023. Anne is also a committed educator of the next generation of architects, holding an appointment as Professor of Architecture at the University of Utah.
Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s work has been featured in national and international press including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, World Architecture, Monocle, Architecture + Urbanism, Architectural Digest, Dwell, Aspire Design & Home, Domus, L’Arca, Western Art & Architecture, Utah Style & Design and Mountain Living. The first monograph of the practice, Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working, published by Hatje Cantz and with an introduction by Michael Webb, was released in 2022 and is available worldwide.
ARTS + CULTURE
Over the past 25 years, Sparano + Mooney Architecture has built a reputation for delivering landmark arts and culture facilities. We have created extraordinary experiences that enhance communities through experimentation and expression. Our portfolio of projects includes museums, exhibitions, cultural master planning, performing arts projects and cultural centers for civic agencies and non-profit institutions. Our creative team works collaboratively with our clients to create meaningful spaces, and to design timeless expressions of a cultural organization’s values and its role within a specific locality. The resulting architecture is rooted in tradition and history while also embracing cutting-edge technology, materials and details to reflect and elevate the broad communities the architecture serves.
Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s process is grounded in thought-provoking research to help define needs and constraints, to benchmark best practices and precedents and ultimately to determine the ideal approach to delivering an elevated patron experience for the organization. The firm’s work is also founded on a commitment to public outreach and engagement, as the design team helps client organizations engage diverse stakeholders in the design process for public projects that artfully balance creativity and community.
CUSTOM MOUNTAIN MODERN HOMES IN THE AMERICAN WEST
Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s heritage modern homes are nestled within some of North America’s most iconic landscapes, including Park City, Utah; Deer Valley, Utah; Sun Valley, Idaho; Powder Mountain Eden, Utah; Malibu, California; Star Valley, Wyoming; and Emigration Canyon, Utah. Our designers develop understated and elegant residential architecture through one-of-a-kind designs that result in timeless contemporary architectural homes.
Named 1 of the Top 10 Architects in the World working in Mountain Settings by Dwell magazine, Sparano + Mooney Architecture offers sustainable, contemporary architectural homes to clients who prioritize and care deeply about architecture and design. Our state-of-the art practice has helped reshape the region’s mountain landscape with residential and resort homes that balance leading-edge technologies with timeless sustainable design practices inspired by nature.
The work is guided by quality, craft and a love of materials. Detailed design is customized for each client, and our architecture demonstrates a mastery of our discipline: challenges are elegantly resolved and design concepts are carried out in refined and understated architectural solutions, as well as in unexpected details.
Mountain living, redefined.