Kyle Barker

Kyle Barker founded Primary Projects, an architecture firm committed to more communal, affordable and sustainable housing. He is a member of the Design Advisory Council for the Cohousing Association of the United States (CohoUS) and has taught several housing studios at Northeastern University. As a recipient of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship, he traveled across Europe, Australia and Japan to study collective housing models. Over the past few years, he has designed nearly a dozen projects with Croft, a Maine-based prefabricated panel manufacturer, furthering the use of straw as a building material. He is an active Boston Society for Architecture member and the Small Practices Network Knowledge Community co-chair. He holds an MArch from MIT and a BSID from the University of Cincinnati. Kyle is licensed in Massachusetts, New York, Maine and Michigan.