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Erick Mikiten, AIA

Mikiten Architecture

Principal
Berkeley, CA
United States
94710-2409

Bio

• Erick Mikiten has worked in architecture for 30 years, and has 16 years of experience designing multi-family housing. As a wheelchair-riding architect, he has particular expertise in universal design, and is currently a special consultant on architecture and universal design for the Ed Roberts Campus, a new complex that will house nine disability-related agencies adjacent to Berkeley’s Ashby BART station. He has designed hundreds of units of affordable housing throughout the SF Bay Area. • Mr. Mikiten has worked with non-profit developers Affordable Housing Associates, Resources for Community Development, Satellite Housing, Inc., EBALDC (East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation), BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency), Housing Consortium of the East Bay, and Operation Dignity to build HUD- and other publicly financed housing in Berkeley, Oakland, and Concord. He consulted for the Trammell Crow Company on a large-scale development of accessible housing, and has served as an expert witness testifying on access codes. • Mr. Mikiten’s tour books for wheelchair riders are published by the California State Coastal Conservancy. They cover beaches and waterfronts in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. He has consulted for the Coastal Conservancy on access improvements on a number of projects, and created a new beach design for the newly acquired Gleason’s Beach north of San Francisco. • Erick Mikiten taught architectural design at UC Berkeley and is a frequent guest critic at design reviews and guest lecturer. He also lectures at various venues on multifamily housing strategies, and the social-responsibility overlap between Sustainable Design and Universal Design , including being a speaker at the 2009 AIA National Convention.

Specialties

Accessibility Compliance, Architectural Design, Construction Documentation: Drawings, Graphic Design, Programming, Site Analysis and Selection, Sustainable Building Design, Universal Design by a wheelchair-riding Architect

Affiliations

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

Interests

Universal Design, BIM

Education

UC Berkeley

Berkeley, California, United States
Master of Architecture, 1989
Architecture
1988 To 1989
Advisor: Donlyn Lyndon

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas, United States
Bachelor of Architecture, 1987
Architecture
1984 To 1987

The University of Texas at San Antonio

B.A.
1982 To 1985

Job History

Mikiten Architecture

Principal
Berkeley, CA, United States
May 1991 - present

UC Berkeley

Architectural Lecturer
January 1991 - January 1993

George Miers & Associates

Architect
January 1989 - January 1990

Moore Ruble Yudell

Designer
January 1986 - January 1986

Hablinski and Associates

Designer
January 1984 - January 1984

JDM Associates

Designer
January 1982 - January 1984

Phelps Garza Bomberger

Designer
January 1981 - January 1982
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