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We are Yes Community Architects.We design multifamily, mixed-use neighborhoods that enhance community cohesion and resilience. Our designs prioritize community connection, social justice, and human dignity. We keep it fresh.We are a Bay-Area-born, BIPOC architecture firm that draws its creativity and passion from a rich mosaic of lived experience and deep community roots. As Citizen-Architects, our expertise is transdisciplinary–from collaborative community art projects, to innovations using modular and prefabrication, to expertise in state housing legislation— we infuse every project with sustainable design and human-centered creativity that elevates the human spirit.We cook with community power.We collaborate with ambitious, purpose-driven clients and communities that are unafraid to lead with bright, bold, visions. We listen, we learn, and we launch brave design ideas that build excitement far beyond the property lines. We embrace the sensitivities of all stakeholders, build trust and maximize inclusive participation, to build not just buildings, but places of lasting community power. Current Projects in Progress in 2024: 👉🏽North Berkeley BART (700+ homes) *Associate Architecture Firm with David Baker Architects👉🏽Affordable Family Housing on Faith-Based Lands (70 homes)👉🏽Project Homekey Renovation into Permanent Supportive Housing (40+homes)👉🏽Affordable Senior and Family Housing in Oakland (60 homes) *with Mithun👉🏽New Infill Student Housing in Berkeley (24 homes)👉🏽New Hi-Rise Student Housing in Berkeley (210 homes)​Yes Duffy Architects is a BIPOC-owned firm registered as an Minority Business Enterprise with NMSDC. A little backstory:From 2010-2018, Yes designed a wide range of award-winning, sustainable, mixed-use developments at David Baker Architects in San Francisco. His former clients include Google, The Related Companies, Bridge Housing, Holliday Development, Factory OS Modular and many other visionary organizations.

Berkeley, California, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Senior Capstone Architecture Studio focusing on advanced design and fabrication. This undergraduate senior studio investigates the process of developing schematic design proposals into built works. Emphasis is placed on team collaboration, prototyping, construction, documentation, detailing, material, performance and the roles of digital and analog craft in construction. Students will collaborate with numerous local fabricators to design and build UC Berkeley's first student built sculpture and play structure on campus.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

From 2010-2018, Yes designed a wide range of award-winning, sustainable, mixed-use developments at David Baker Architects in San Francisco. He has been instrumental in developing DBA’s expertise in modular housing, custom manufacturing, digital fabrication, and designing for a new generation of maker spaces and creative communities.From the "maker market" at Potrero 1010, which now houses CCA’s Hubbell Street Galleries, to new multifamily modular housing communities in West Oakland, Yes is equally at home creating micro-maker spaces as multifamily modules in a large factory.Yes helped design, entitle and manage construction of over 1,000 units of housing at DBA and his significant projects include: The Union, Potrero 1010, Five88, The Rivermark, 1601 Mariposa Street, 855 Brannan, and many others. Yes is deeply involved in his projects from broad conceptual design to precise innovations in factory modularization and digital CNC fabrication.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Instructor for UCB Landscape Architecture 226 + 254: Collaborative Design/Build. 18 advanced graduate students. Awarded a sizable grant to design + build a permanent projects at UC Berkeley.

Activist Architecture Collective was inspired by Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio in 2003, and has been the means in which I practice community-centered design, construction and research.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Arch160: Introduction to Construction. 85 advanced undergraduates. Contemporary and conventional materials and methods of construction. Overall Teaching Effectiveness: 6.48 out of 7; Course Worthiness: 6.62 out of 7; (69 responses)

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Instructor for Landscape Architecture 226: Collaborative Design/Build. 18 advanced graduate students. Awarded a sizable grant to design + build a permanent project at UC Berkeley. Project Awards:AIA Small Projects AwardASLA National Honor Award

San Francisco, California, Us

Yes Duffy co-founded the San Francisco Chapter of Architecture for Humanity. He designed and facilitated community design charrettes to assist with the design and construction of the new Architecture for Humanity office and community resource center.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Construction Documents on Multi Family, LEED Gold Urban Infill Housing in Seattle.

Masters, Architecture

Masters, City Planning