Barley & Pfeiffer Architects is recognized nationally for their pioneering use of environmentally responsive building design and construction techniques. This includes healthful low toxicity environments in medical facilities and private homes, energy-conserving design and construction, rainwater harvesting for residential and commercial use, and for the production of unique corporate images. Through the use of innovative ideas combined with real world practicality, Barley & Pfeiffer Architects has completed over 400 projects nationally since it's founding in 1987.

Barley & Pfeiffer Architects' projects have been featured nationally in Fine Homebuilding, the Dallas Morning News, Better Homes and Gardens, Texas Co-op Power Magazine, Texas Architect, the Austin American Statesman, the Austin Business Journal, and the new national publication Environmental Design and Construction. The firm has won awards from City of Austin Green Builder Program, several community revitalization awards from the Austin Board of Realtors, the Austin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the National Propane Gas Association. In their yearly awards for the ten best projects completed by a small architectural firm, Texas Architect chose Barley & Pfeiffer Architects as one of the recipients for their Scofield Farms Community Center project.