Mork Ulnes Architects

MORK-ULNES is an international architecture practice with offices in San Francisco, California and Oslo, Norway. We approach projects with both Scandinavian practicality and a Californian can-do spirit of innovation. Our built work is characterised by both playfulness and restraint—the result of a rigorous and concept-driven process that is informed by an economy of means and materials. Since its founding by Casper Mork-Ulnes in 2005, Mork-Ulnes Architects has built on three continents and worked on projects at a variety of scales, from master plans and mixed-use buildings to ground up residences and 100 square foot cabins. Our current projects include: a master plan for a new community in the California Sierras; a cross-laminated timber home in Oregon; a surf cabin in Brazil; and 100,000 ft2 + mixed-use buildings in both Norway and California. Mork-Ulnes Architects has been the recipient of numerous national and international honors, including the Architectural League of New York’s 2020 Emerging Voices award, twice nominated for the The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, and Architectural Record’s 2015 World-wide Design Vanguard award (given to ten practitioners internationally). A recipient of over 10 awards from the American Institute of Architects, the firm has also been widely featured in international publications such as Detail, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper*, Architectural Record, Domus, Architizer, Dezeen, Abitare, The Financial Times, and Dwell Magazine.