Firm History

Urbina Architects Inc. was established in 1999. The firm is managed by the Architect Francisco J. Urbina. He has a BFA in the History of Art from the University of Illinois at Champain-Urbana and a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His 20+ years of experience are diverse including design in Healthcare, Restaurants, Municipal, Custom Homes and numerous Remodeling projects. Francisco is a member of the American Institute of Architects and of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The firm emphasizes the importance between the overall design and the construction process by providing professional construction management services whenever possible. This lends itself to the control of a fixed budget, the quality and scheduling of construction and achieving the aesthetic design intent for each project.

Francisco was born in Honduras Central America. In 1982 he was employed by an architectural engineering firm in the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa where he experienced design requirements necessary to meet the extreme climate and poverty of the country. Urbina Architects, Inc. has recently designed and built a custom home in Honduras in the province of Juticalpa, Olancho. The home was constructed of adobe blocks hand fabricated from on-site clay and hand picked pine trees locally sawn for the roof construction. Francisco also studied in Paris, France and Rome and Venice, Italy and has visited numerous countries in Europe. Urbina Architects, Inc. will provide architectural services anywhere in the United States and abroad as feasible.