Erick Mikiten, FAIA is principal of Mikiten Architecture and founder of The Art of Access, a team of designers with disabilities practicing radical inclusion. A wheelchair-riding, hard-of-hearing architect, his lifetime of lived disability experience combines with 30 years of practice designing inclusive environments — from multifamily housing and high-tech workplaces to museums and botanical gardens.

He co-created the Inclusive Design Standards with housing nonprofit The Kelsey and consults on projects across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, working on-site with design teams from concept through construction.

His work connects green building’s biodiversity commitment with a parallel imperative: designing for the full diversity of human bodies and minds, not the monoculture that minimum code compliance produces.

Erick served 14 years on the California Building Standards Commission and was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows in 2025. He is the founder of Disability 3.0, a nonprofit advancing collective action for disability inclusion.