SPARANO + MOONEY ARCHITECTURE is a collective of architects, designers and craftspeople with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. We design compelling spaces that connect people with their communities and landscape, and are committed to creating sustainable, contemporary architecture for clients throughout the American West who care deeply about design.
Our architects and designers are experts at helping develop architecture that will serve generations to come on complex sites throughout the western United States. Whether a new landmark building for your cultural institution or a legacy home for your family, our California and 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 is carefully crafted at multiple scales, from micro, off-the-grid projects, to sophisticated new-build custom 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. We’d love to work with you!
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 earned both the Bronze and the Silver medals for his achievements in architectural practice, the highest honors given to professionals in the region. He was elevated to fellowship with the American Institute of Architects in 2015. Anne Mooney, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, has 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.
Our practice’s work has been featured in national and international press including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, World Architecture, Monocle, Forbes, Architecture + Urbanism, Architectural Digest, Dwell, Aspire Design & Home, Domus, L’Arca, Western Art & Architecture, Utah Style & Design and Mountain Living. The firm’s first monograph, 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 community and cultural experiences that enhance civic life through experimentation and artistic expression. Our portfolio includes museums, exhibitions, gallery spaces, cultural master planning, performing arts projects, concert halls and cultural centers for civic agencies and non-profit institutions. Our creative team of architects works collaboratively with these clients to create meaningful spaces, and to design timeless expressions of a cultural organization’s values and 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 the goals of broad constituents.
Our process is grounded in thought-provoking research to help define needs and constraints, benchmark best practices and precedents and ultimately to determine the ideal approach to delivering an elevated patron experience for an organization. The firm’s work is also founded on a commitment to fundraising support and public outreach, as the design team helps client organizations engage diverse stakeholders in the design process for public, arts and cultural projects that artfully balance vision, creativity and community.
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 and 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, and as a Best Residential Architect by Forbes, our team brings sustainable, contemporary architectural homes to clients who prioritize and care deeply about architecture and design. Our state-of-the art practice has helped elevate the region’s mountain residential and resort homes, balancing leading-edge architectural practices and technologies with timeless sustainable design inspired by nature.
The work is guided by quality, craft and a love of materials. Detailed design solutions are customized for each client, and our architecture demonstrates a mastery of the discipline: challenges are elegantly resolved, and design concepts are carried out in refined and sophisticated architectural solutions, as well as in unexpected details.
Mountain living, redefined.
PARK CITY ARCHITECTS
SPARANO + MOONEY ARCHITECTURE is known throughout Park City, Utah, and the broader Rocky Mountain West for delivering one-of-a-kind, architecturally ambitious residences within some of the region’s most challenging and breathtaking sites. Our award-winning custom homes can be found in distinguished communities such as The Colony at White Pine Canyon, Glenwild, Thaynes Canyon, Deer Valley, The Preserve and Victory Ranch, each an expression of contemporary mountain living tailored to its unique Park City residential landscape and to the people who will call it home.
For more than 25 years, our practice has cultivated a reputation for crafting highly-considered residential architecture that is both timeless and deeply personal. We work with only a select number of clients each year, allowing us to devote the time, creativity and rigorous attention that is required to bring each client’s vision to life. Through a collaborative, hands-on process, our architects explore form, materiality, light, spatial experience and context to create residences that honor the traditions and history of the region while embracing innovation in technology, sustainability and construction.
Our designs are shaped by the extraordinary beauty of the Wasatch Range, a landscape whose grandeur inspires us to meet the highest level of artistry and precision. Recognized by Dwell magazine as 1 of the Top 10 Architects in the World working in mountain settings, we continue to push the boundaries of what mountain modern residential architecture can be. The result is a portfolio of Park City mountain modern architectural homes enhancing their surroundings, elevating everyday life and reflecting the distinctive values and aspirations of the individuals and families we serve.
