Opticos Design, Inc. is a small, award-winning urban design and architecture firm in Downtown Berkeley, CA near the BART Station and along a Bike Boulevard. Our team of thought leaders is celebrating over 20 years of finding solutions to the most challenging housing and community issues of our time. We created the international Missing Middle Housing movement in 2010, and our recent works includes Culdesac Tempe, the largest car-free community in the United States, and Prairie Queen, the country’s first Missing Middle Neighborhood. Our people and work have been featured in many high-profile publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Curbed, and Fast Company. As creatives, we think big to have the greatest impact on the built environment and have fun while doing it. Together, we have regular desk crits, book clubs, game nights, and general project sharing among the different teams.

We are a founding B Corporation, which means we have pledged to run our firm with a focus on social, environmental, and economic responsibility. And we work hard to practice what we preach – shopping locally, committing to being anti-racist and inclusive in all that we do, living small, and biking, walking, or taking transit to work.