COMMUNITY ARCHITECTS

WELCOME TO
oUR STUDIO

Yes Community Architects designs multifamily, mixed-use neighborhoods that enhance community cohesion and resilience – from prefab workforce housing to permanent supportive housing. Our designs prioritize community connection, housing justice, and human dignity.

WE BRING THAT
SPECIAL SAUCE

YCA is 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 – spanning collaborative community art installations, proactive housing policy reforms, and pioneering modular and mass timber construction techniques. We infuse every project with sustainable designs that address earth’s urgent needs and with creative elements that lift the human spirit.

AND BUILD WiTH
COMMUNITY POWER

YCA collaborates with ambitious, purpose-driven clients and communities. We listen, learn, and launch brave design ideas that build excitement far beyond the property lines. Focused on building trust and maximizing inclusive participation, we embrace all stakeholders to build not just structures, but places of lasting community power.

We use design
to bridge differences

North Berkeley BART Housing

We design innovative prototypes

Oxford Middle Housing

Our designs meet urgent needs

First Church

We partner with faith communities to transform surplus land into homes

Rodeway Homes

We thrive in diverse neighborhoods

Ashby BART

We maximize potential with new zoning and pro-housing laws

Durant Tower

We design spaces of healing and renewal

Ghost Ship

We are a visionary team of architects, innovators, and community advocates united by a shared mission: to make great design accessible, scalable and reflective of the unique identities and aspirations of the communities we serve. We are down to earth. Joyful. Economical. Fun. Fearless.

MEET THE TEAM