Mark Cavagnero Associates

Mark Cavagnero Associates is a San Francisco, California-based architecture firm, founded by American architect Mark Cavagnero, FAIA.
The firm was founded in 1988 as Barnes and Cavagnero with Edward Larrabee Barnes, and in 1993 became Mark Cavagnero Associates, providing a full range of architectural design services, from programming, master planning, site planning and conceptual design, through construction documents and administration.

Awards and recognition

The firm was recognized by AIA California with the Distinguished Practice Award in 2010 and the Firm of the Year Award in 2012. In 2015, Mark Cavagnero received the Maybeck Award, the highest honor given to an individual architect by AIA California. The firm’s transformation of the Oakland Museum of California was presented as part of “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity,” the 2025 U.S. Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.