Welcome to U+B

We are a collaborative architectural practice that provides our clients with a fresh solution-oriented approach toward architecture and design. Our team is committed to listening to our clients and providing superior design solutions and maximum value.

We work fluidly with both residential and commercial clients on projects of every scale. Our studio is located in Uptown Minneapolis, behind the French Meadow Bakery. Please stop in and visit us if you are in the neighborhood.

Process and Services

Founded in 2003, Paul Udris and Mark Burgess sought to bring together their decades of technical and design expertise to build an architecture and design firm focused on providing clients with a superlative design process. Our team is committed to listening to clients first, understanding their story and providing a fresh, solution-oriented, approach toward architecture and design. Our work is not constrained by a signature style and we believe that great design arises from sincere collaboration with a client and a deep respect for their needs.  Nothing happens from a design perspective until there is a thorough understanding of a client’s goals. That understanding sets the foundation for every decision to be made during the design. This process and personal engagement with clients translates fluidly between residential and commercial projects of varied size and complexity.

Strategic research and investigation coupled with rigorous iteration and client interaction, reveals the unique opportunities of each project.  We respect budgets both as a necessity and as a creative impetus for finding new resolutions to established problems.  Our designs are elegant solutions, sustainable and designed for quality and lasting value.  Our team is cognizant of and seeks to maximize the value of your investment by challenging assumptions about design, materials and the building process.  With unsurpassed attention to detail, the U+B team works as your advocate through every step of the process, transforming needs and aspirations into elegant, inventive and unexpected architectural form.

We have worked with clients on a wide-range of services to include: master planning, site selection, development concepts, programming, feasibility studies, schematic design, design development, interior design, construction documents, furniture selection and contractor negotiations.