HK Associates Inc

HK Associates Inc is a Tucson, Arizona-based architecture practice founded in the mid-2000s by principals Kathy Hancox, AIA, and Michael Kothke, AIA, NCARB, ASID. Both principals carry a professional lineage rooted in internationally recognised firms across Vancouver, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California. Their arrival in Arizona in 2003 to collaborate with celebrated desert architect Rick Joy proved formative, cultivating a sustained commitment to site-responsive design and the spatial qualities particular to the Sonoran desert. The practice holds active architectural licensure in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, with NCARB certification enabling reciprocal licensure across North America.

The firm's methodology is anchored in close client collaboration, rigorous construction documentation, and sustained involvement through construction administration, ensuring that design intent is preserved with precision from concept through completion. Hancox currently serves as Secretary of the AIA Committee on Design and has previously held positions on the AIA Strategic Council and as President of AIA Arizona. Kothke, recipient of the 2019 AIA Young Architect Award and multiple DesignIntelligence Most Admired Educator honours, chairs the Master of Architecture programme at the University of Arizona's College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, integrating academic inquiry and professional practice with equal rigour.

In 2025, Forbes recognised HK Associates among its Best-in-State Residential Architects, affirming the practice's standing within the high-end residential design sector. HK Associates Inc approaches every commission as an opportunity to give built form to the personal narratives of its clients, translating individual ways of living and emotional aspirations into architecture that is precise in its language, enduring in its presence, and genuinely of its place.