At High Plains Architects, we uphold our mission to serve and inspire our clients, community, heritage, and environment by designing innovative, cost-effective, high-performance buildings in every project we design.
High Plains is a full service architecture firm based in the high plains of Montana. For over a decade, Principal Randy Hafer and the rest of the High Plains team have provided customized design for our clients, emphasizing sustainability, preservation and restoration, and urban revitalization.

High Plains strives to create buildings that endure through thoughtful understanding of our clients' needs and awareness of the surrounding landscape. We make sustainable attainable and have defined ‘Urban Rustic’ as the careful balance between innovation and preservation.

While based in Montana, our team has lived, worked and studied across the country (as well as abroad), from the East Coast to Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area, and throughout the Greater Yellowstone region.

Expertise & Services

Drawing upon decades of experience, High Plains Architects works on projects ranging from residential to commercial, from civic and educational to industrial. Our capability ranges from individual residential to multi-family and mixed-use, multi-story structures. We have designed educational facilities, as well as banks, offices, restaurants, retail spaces, grocery stores, hardware stores, fitness centers, breweries, theaters, and recreation facilities. In short, our full-service architectural design experience is varied and far ranging. We are always excited to discuss project ideas with our clients, which is why we offer free consultations to all new clients.

No matter what type of building we are designing, High Plains has consistently put its sustainable design values into practice, resulting in projects that are unsurpassed in the region in energy efficiency, water efficiency, use of salvaged and other green materials, and through the use of renewable energy sources.

Additionally, High Plains is well versed in the varied demands of historic preservation and historically sensitive design.

High Plains has worked on many significant rehabilitation projects, which have contributed considerably to the overall revitalization of downtown cores.

Services Provided:
Full Design, Commercial, Residential, Mixed-Use, Industrial, Education, Higher Ed, Programming, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, Contract Administration, Fixtures and Equipment Selection, Feasibility Studies, Master Plans, Development Consulting, LEED Consulting and Documentation, Sustainability Consulting, Adaptive Reuse, Rehabilitation Tax Credits, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration,

Areas Served:
Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas, California, Illinois, United States, International

Certification and Awards:
LEED Platinum, Seattle AIA WMIG, Energy Star, Certified Tax & New Market Tax Credits, National Register of Historic Places, BetterBricks Award, Yellowstone Historic Preservation Best Practices Achievement, MT Preservation Alliance Excellence in Historic Preservation