Hoopes + Associates Architects, Ltd

Hoopes + Associates has gained the reputation as one of Santa Fe’s top architectural design studios. We are leaders in creating award-winning, modern homes, commercial buildings and public spaces in the Southwest. We were recently awarded 2021 Best of Santa Fe in the Architect category. At the 2020 Santa Fe Homebuilders Association Parade of Homes, H+A won nine awards, including for Best Design in multiple categories, and Most Innovative in another.

Since its founding in 1992, H+A has specialized in the design of contemporary homes, performing/assembly spaces, sacred spaces, and modern commercial spaces designed for end-users. This combination of projects has allowed us to learn lessons from one scale of project and apply them to others.

As a firm, we are deeply committed to community, pragmatic design and enduring architecture. We seek collaborative relationships with our clients that allow us to better understand their needs and concerns, successfully meeting any project challenges. That collaboration extends to other parties in the planning and design process, including artisans, landscape architects, interior designers, contractors, and homeowner associations, with all of whom we have established strong working relationships.

Here are some quotes from our founder and President, Craig Hoopes, that help in understanding the philosophical premise from which H+A approaches each project:

“We take traditional Santa Fe architecture and its minimal aesthetic, simple and spare, and make it contemporary. Both old and new styles are designed to work in their own environment – in the early Santa Fe pueblo style, houses were protected from the wind, snow and the rains – but now the contemporary style house is embraced by the land, and is all about light and openness, looking out and becoming part of the environment.”

“Blurring the lines between indoors and outdoors is a hallmark of Hoopes and Associates. We are inviting residents into the landscape while providing a sense of enclosure and protection.”

“Santa Fe offers a chance to work with artists and artisans -- it becomes an exchange of ideas, rather than an architect (simply) putting down on paper his or her thoughts -- Hoopes and Associates brings artisans into projects early.”