process
ARCHITECTURE makes a difference
It shapes both act and thought; it embodies our deepest feelings and our highest ideals. It is bricks and mortar; it is poetry and metaphor. It relates us to people, place and time. It extends our progressive inheritance from the past to become the living enrichment we owe to the future.
We are what we build. We build what we are.
PROVEN PATHS LEAD TO NEW IDEAS
We create value--ideas that work-- by weaving our clients’ needs with the fundamental elements of material, space, light, structure, and order. Not satisfied with routine, our method is enthusiastic, inquisitive, and collaborative--grounded in the pragmatic exploration of program and utility, site and climate, tectonics and craft--so that each realized project becomes an authentic and exceptional expression of who our clients are and what they do.
VALUE IS A RESULT OF VALUES
Buildings have impact when guided by relevance.
We strive to create environments that are functional, compelling, and adaptive to our clients’ realities. We begin by asking questions to identify core values. We balance opportunities with constraints. We form criteria to serve as our common touchstone. Then we measure our choices—again and again— to ensure we are producing the best work with the highest value.
EVERYONE HOLDS PART OF THE ANSWER
Our approach to teamwork shapes the success of our work more than any preconceived architectural idea or theory. Collaboration--in every step of the process--is at the heart of what we do. By exploiting a broader network of professionals and experts we are able to assemble the most talented and appropriate teams for each project resulting in the most imaginative, cost-effective and comprehensively integrated solution for each project.
WE MAKE TO COMMUNICATE
The process of making is essential to our practice of architecture. Whether through a model, a drawing, or a building--we shape space to communicate with our clients, with our collaborators and with our audiences. With our media of function, materiality, and aesthetic, we cement experience--both mental and physical--through the fabrication of new space.
