MIG I Portico

MIG I Portico MIG | Portico is a design firm creating opportunities to connect people with nature and culture in meaningful ways.

MIG|Portico specializes in spaces for community, interpretation, and informal education. Our firm is comprised of architects, landscape architects, and interpretive planners, allowing us to explore and illuminate the relationship between the built and natural environments. Our body of work includes:
• Aquaria and zoos
• Museums and visitor centers
• Public gardens
• Parks and recreation facilities



As an interdisciplinary firm, we capitalize on the inspiration, creativity, and dynamic energy found in collaboration—within the firm, and with our clients and consultants. Our work expresses our place-based approach to design, which is linked to the specific physical, environmental, and cultural characteristics of the designated project location. Each place, and each person who cares about that place, has a story. Through design, we are committed to providing places for our clients to tell those stories. By fostering stewardship of the communities in which we live and work, this approach naturally results in a professional philosophy that focuses on sustainable, green design.

10/06/2017

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Liz Bullard (Seattle Children's PlayGarden), Alissa Rupp (MIG I Portico), Tamara Kaldor (Erikson Institute), and Kelley ...
09/18/2017

Liz Bullard (Seattle Children's PlayGarden), Alissa Rupp (MIG I Portico), Tamara Kaldor (Erikson Institute), and Kelley Fitzsimmons (Children's Museum of Phoenix) presented "Inviting Whole Families to Play" at the Triennial International Play Association Conference in Calgary this past weekend!

We're majorly bummed to say goodbye to the coolest intern around 😎Nicco is pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at  ...
09/06/2017

We're majorly bummed to say goodbye to the coolest intern around 😎

Nicco is pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at and it's been amazing having him at MIG | Portico this summer. He's been a huge help and wonderful presence in the office.

So great, in fact, that he has been gifted with this really cool giraffe hat 🦒because of his work on a recent zoo project (among many other things!)

You'll be missed, Nicco!!

Justin is doing summer right 🙌
08/28/2017

Justin is doing summer right 🙌

We think Chuck is pretty cool too 😎
08/18/2017

We think Chuck is pretty cool too 😎

For over thirty years, the Portico group has been creating some of the very best zoo habitats ever built. The group has helped raise the bar of how zoos e...

MIG SvR and MIG I Portico combined efforts this year to support Food Frenzy -- an annual two week, creative competition ...
08/15/2017

MIG SvR and MIG I Portico combined efforts this year to support Food Frenzy -- an annual two week, creative competition between local businesses to raise funds, food and volunteers with Food Lifeline. Both offices collected non-perishable food items and made monetary donations online.

Online donations from both offices totaled $2,015, doubling contributions from last year and winning the MIG team one of the Double Down awards!

Very cool 😎
07/26/2017

Very cool 😎

An interdimensional portal has just appeared at the Museum of Flight, ready to take visitors on an augmented-reality tour of the first Boeing 737 jet.

Check out the SMPS website for a job posting for a Proposal Coordinator in our Berkeley office!
07/13/2017

Check out the SMPS website for a job posting for a Proposal Coordinator in our Berkeley office!

MIG is based in Berkeley, CA, with 12 offices in five states. MIG is a distinctive firm due to its high level of talented, quality staff. Our employees form a unique company with exceptionally deep and broad skill sets in planning, design, communications, management, technology and science. Working…

Occasionally, we are privileged with the opportunity to witness and assist a client as they rediscover and reconnect wit...
06/22/2017

Occasionally, we are privileged with the opportunity to witness and assist a client as they rediscover and reconnect with their own culture and environment. The Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center and Bald Eagle Observatory project is one of those rare and wonderful occasions. We were honored to be a part of this endeavor.

"We are stewards of the land, the sisters tell me, and we are obligated to care for it."

Klukwan is home to about 100 people, most of them from the Tlingit tribe. Once their land reached to the mountains. Today, the village is struggling to retain its land and its culture.

Busch Gardens Jungala in Tampa, FL, "best described as a jungle playground," was voted  #1 in the top 10 Most Unique Zoo...
05/09/2017

Busch Gardens Jungala in Tampa, FL, "best described as a jungle playground," was voted #1 in the top 10 Most Unique Zoo Sections in America by zoonation.org!

Our mission as architects, landscape architects and interpretive planners on this project was to create an environment where visitors could explore and engage through climbing, mazes and rides, and experience life from the animal’s perspective while learning what they can do to help protect these endangered species.

As the summer slowly creeps upon us and with beautiful weather just around the corner, it's almost zoo season! America has hundreds of zoos and each of them offers their own unique experiences to guests. But some zoos go above and beyond in theming..

So much fun at the ACM InterActivity Conference in Pasadena last week! Along with presenting, Allison and Alissa held do...
05/08/2017

So much fun at the ACM InterActivity Conference in Pasadena last week! Along with presenting, Allison and Alissa held down the MIG|Portico booth!

Seattle Fellows Bruce Williams, Alissa Rupp, Lisa Johnson, and Richard Franko prior to the investiture ceremony this pas...
05/02/2017

Seattle Fellows Bruce Williams, Alissa Rupp, Lisa Johnson, and Richard Franko prior to the investiture ceremony this past weekend! Medals followed 😀

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