MKThink, the San Francisco ideas company for the built environment, specializes in insight and invention. We integrate research, analysis, design and technical services to provide thoughtful solutions to contemporary issues at the intersection of culture, architecture and the environment. Our work includes long-term strategic planning and new designs for education, community, workplace and healing environments.
Led by principals with over 70 years of collective experience, we are architects, business strategists, designers, behaviorists, organizational developers, researchers, software engineers, and urban planners.
Interdisciplinary methods reveal untapped opportunities, facilitating strategic and cost-effective decisions, for premier educational, corporate, non-profit, and healthcare institutions. Existing facilities are transformed into assets that fully support our clients’ missions and goals.
We deliver smart, innovative solutions that expand the idea of what is possible.
representative client list
- Anderson Art Collection
- Catellus Urban Development Corporation
- Citizens to Save San Francisco Waterfront
- City of Dublin
- Emeryville Center for Community Life
- Hawaii Natural Energy Institute
- Nature Conservancy of California
- Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo
- Port of San Francisco
- SF Neighborhood Theater Foundation
- Telegraph Hill Dwellers
- YMCA of San Francisco
- Children’s Hospital Oakland
- Forbes Norris Clinic
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital
- Magnet Men’s Health Clinic
- Stanford University Medical Center
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
- Borel Private Bank & Trust Company
- Catellus
- Dept of the Navy Office of Naval Research
- Dow Agrosciences
- El Dorado Ventures
- Emotive Group
- Genentech, Inc.
- General Motors Corporation
- Harding ESE
- Highland Capital Partners
- Jupiter Communications
- Lo Property Management
- Mozilla Corporation
- Panorama Capital
- Quadrus
- RWI Ventures
- San Francisco Giants Baseball Club
- Shasta Ventures
- Stanford Management Company
- Storm Ventures
- Sun Microsystems
- Teatro Zinzanni
- United Commercial Bank
- Venrock
- VMware
- Walgreens
- Wells Fargo
- City College of San Francisco
- Hawaii Department of Education
- Jacoby Creek Charter School District
- Marin Montessori School
- Menlo College
- Oak Hill School
- Oakland Unified School District
- Pinewood School
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Santa Clara University
- Santa Clara University School of Law
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Stanford Law School
- Stanford School of Education
- Stanford School of Engineering
- Stanford University
- Town School for Boys
- University of California, Berkeley
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- University of San Francisco
- Woodside Priory School