Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture

Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (BRS) is an architecture practice based at 990 South Broadway, Suite 222, Denver, Colorado, with a second office at 129 South Main Street, Unit 250, Grapevine, Texas. The firm was founded in 1975 by Donald Barker, Ronald Rinker and Russell Seacat and describes itself as a people-centred practice whose purpose is to create places that improve community well-being.

Its stated mission is to seek experiences built with collaboration, ingenuity, individual pluck and collective spirit. BRS works primarily on civic and community architecture. Its published portfolio covers recreation centres, wellness and active-aging centres, field houses, aquatic centres, park structures, ball fields, clubhouses, water parks, resorts, libraries, city halls and cultural centres, together with related master plans.

Project listings on the firm's website include the Grand Junction Community Recreation Center in Colorado, the Carla Madison Recreation Center in Denver, the Northglenn Recreation Center, Senior Center and Theatre, the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton, the Berthoud Recreation Center at Waggener Farm Park and the LINC Library Innovation Center in Greeley.

The firm describes a people-inspired design process and lists public engagement, sustainable high-performing buildings, benchmarking and post-occupancy visits, and Lean Construction principles among the ways it organises and delivers work. BRS states that it was named AIA Colorado 2025 Firm of the Year, marking fifty years of practice.