Ethan Barlow

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Bozeman & Beyond

November 28, 2022

leading a design-build firm in Bozeman

Ethan Barlow is the co-founder and principal of Holding Ground, a design build firm in Bozeman, Montana. Before beginning his career as an architect, Ethan played professional baseball, worked in finance, and apprenticed to a master carpenter on an island in Maine. image credit: Derik Olsen

From the beginning of his architecture education, Ethan has been drawn to the process of translating questions and ideas into made things. Inspired by formative professional experiences in mentor-based, collaborative work settings, Ethan set out to establish Holding Ground as a process-based practice emphasizing relationships between people and the landscape. Ethan is a registered Architect and he earned his Master of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Before beginning his career as an architect, Ethan played professional baseball, worked in finance, and apprenticed to a master carpenter on an island in Maine.

Resources:
HOLDING GROUND ARCHITECTS
www.instagram.com/holdingground.architects

Ethan’s book recommendations: |
The Storm of Creativity (Leski)
Bewilderment (Powers)
Let My People Go Surfing (Chouinard)

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