Purpose

Our goal is to create places of enduring value that serve, sustain, and enrich life.

As architects, our role is to shape the physical environment in ways that are sustainable and enable people to advance their lives: making places that help them to meet their aspirations, live more fully, and recognize themselves in the world they occupy.

Many of the qualities that we look for in the built environment we hope to realize in the way we work – in what we produce, our expectations of one another, and our interactions with those we serve. They are our core values: capability, engagement, curiosity, integrity, belonging, agility, and care.

Capability

A knowledge-based approach to design and practice.

We are committed to capable, knowledge-based practice, consistently developing skills and resources, and building understanding through inquiry, analysis, design exploration, and education.

Engagement

We are all part of something larger.

We engage with others to together create an architecture that serves a greater purpose and acknowledges a larger context. We collaborate to imagine a built environment that none of us could conceive alone.

Curiosity

Learning more, discovering what was unseen, seeking possibilities.

We know that we will find better ways of working, and better ways of shaping the physical environment to better the lives of those we serve, when we seek them. We look for and test new information – within the world of architecture and from outside it – that may provide new insight, help us understand better, work better, or solve a problem in a better way.

Integrity

All that we do, and the relationships that we value, are built on a foundation of trust and mutual respect.

Belonging

Connection to others and the world.

Our vision is of an architecture of belonging: connecting people to each other, to the world, and to their capacity for experience. A vision of a sustainable architecture in agreement with its time and culture, purpose, setting, and the physical environment.

Agility

At the core of our process is synthesis.

We balance what we know from before with what we learn as we undertake, explore, and design a project. We synthesize solutions in a process of discovery, open and responsive to fresh ideas, fresh influence, and fresh inspiration – creating something purpose-conceived for a specific time and place.

Care

We care about what people need and live for.

We look, learn, and, above all, listen, with care and attention, to help others find fulfillment through what we create.

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