About MIST Architects
MIST Architects is a San Francisco-based architecture firm that focuses on site specific, high-performing buildings. We help clients discover the design that best suits each project’s unique needs. We strive for solutions that engage the senses, proactively respond to a changing climate, and enhance not only the site but the community that surrounds it.
We believe that “good design” cannot exist without being sustainable. Architecture should no longer just look nice, it must also be energy efficient, bolster human wellbeing, and strategically enhance the site’s ecology and history.
Each project and client have their own particular requirements, and finding imaginative solutions to address them is where we thrive. No matter the budget, size, or style of the task at hand, we collaborate with clients to maximize their project’s potential.
Matt Ininns
Matt Ininns is a licensed architect in San Francisco, CA.
Inspired by his architect father, the beautiful coastal homes of his childhood in Laguna Beach, and his time spent abroad, Matt was drawn to architecture’s potential for creative problem solving and ability to spark both large and small scale change.
Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and spent a year of his undergrad studying architecture and Italian in Florence, Italy. Inspired by European history, progressive architecture, human-scaled urban planning, and five euro pizzas, Matt moved to Paris, France for an internship soon after graduating and then spent a year in Stockholm, Sweden working with Street Monkey Architects on custom prefabricated residential and institutional projects.
Upon returning to California, Matt fell in love with San Francisco. Matt worked with Mark Cavagnero Associates on commercial and civic projects before moving on to Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects where he specialized on residential projects and helped lead the office’s sustainability team. After more than a decade in the architecture profession, Matt started MIST Architects with the intent of blending the site-focused, meticulously refined design he has learned in the past with his understanding of the need and potential for a higher-performing, more sustainable future of architecture.
Matt lives in San Francisco’s Western Addition with his wife, two cats, innumerable houseplants, and the appropriate number of surfboards. When he’s not working, Matt can be found duckdiving at Ocean Beach, biking across the city’s parks, or in line at Arsicault.
