Kyle Barker
Design Critic in Architecture
Visiting Faculty
Gund 329
Kyle Barker is the founder of Primary Projects, an architecture firm dedicated to more sustainable, affordable, and communal design. He’s interested in diversifying housing models, reducing embodied carbon, and communicating clearly.
Kyle is the author of the Communal Housing Design Guidelines, a book collecting his Rotch Scholar research, during which he traveled across Europe, Australia, and Japan to study collective housing models. He’s taught housing studios, seminars, and workshops at RISD, Northeastern, and MIT. In 2023, he received the Boston Society for Architecture’s (BSA) Earl R. Flansburgh Young Designers Award. He holds an MArch from MIT, a BSID from the University of Cincinnati, and is licensed in Massachusetts, New York, Maine, and Michigan.
Outside of practice, he is the Board Secretary for the Boston Society of Architects, a member of the Design Advisory Council for the Cohousing Association of the United States, a member of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship Committee, and a design mentor for the Greater Boston Affordable Housing Design Competition.