About

ThinLine is a Naples architecture firm working alongside Southwest Florida's builders, contractors, and developers to deliver permit-ready construction documents on schedule and on budget. Led by Carlos Barbato, a Florida-registered architect with more than 30 years of experience, our office handles new custom homes, additions, renovations, and selective commercial projects across Collier and Lee County.

We're built to be a builder's design partner. That means clear communication from day one, realistic schedules we hold to, drawings coordinated for the field rather than the portfolio, and signed-and-sealed permit sets that move through Collier County, City of Naples, City of Marco Island, and Lee County review without avoidable resubmittals. Every project accounts for FEMA flood zone requirements, Florida Building Code high-velocity hurricane provisions, and local zoning from the first sketch.

Services for builders and developers: schematic design, construction documents, permit drawings, site plans, 3D renderings for client presentations, construction administration, and as-built documentation. We're comfortable working from a builder's spec plan, a homeowner's napkin sketch, or a developer's pro forma — whichever the project starts with.

Bilingual office — English and Spanish.

Members: AIA, CBIA, FHBA, Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce.

Florida License No. AR-104821 - 4100 Corporate Square, Suite 114, Naples, FL 34104 (239) 315-4100 · office@thinline-group.com · www.thinline-group.com

Carlos Barbato is the founder and principal architect of ThinLine Group in Naples, Florida (FL Lic. No. AR-104821. He holds a 1995 architecture degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires — credentialed by WES as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's and master's — and trained earlier as a Senior Master of Works in 1985, giving him 30+ years of design and construction experience.

Before founding ThinLine in 2021, Carlos led large-scale work in Argentina, including the 3,650-acre Tres Pinos master plan, the Tavistock Group's Bahía Dorada coastal residential development and the All About Kids building, and, as Provincial Director of Special Projects at the Production Ministry of Neuquén, public infrastructure ranging from a cargo airport expansion to the Pino Hachado international border crossing with Chile. He has been a university teacher since 1994 at UBA's Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism and at the Universidad de Flores. His work has been recognized with first prizes in the Cooperar and Coopetel building contests and a second prize for a private urban development in Hudson, Buenos Aires.

Today he applies that breadth to custom homes, renovations, and commercial projects across Collier and Lee County, Florida.