OUR VALUES
Architecture is an expression of values. Our values come with us to every project, meeting, and conversation.
We Serve Our Clients’ Vision: The creative act of architecture is to seek out a client’s desires and goals, to act as a medium through which these are given form. Design is not an act of egotism: it is an act of service.
We Foster Respect: Respect for our clients, colleagues, and the rights of the end user and the community are paramount to our practice.
We Make Places & Build Communities: The Places we create are designed to help their inhabitants thrive. They optimize the health of their inhabitants, with well-designed ventilation, light and acoustical environments; They express our client’s culture and goals. They offer aesthetic experiences that enhance their inhabitant’s lives. They are practical and easy to live and work in, easy to maintain.
We Are Careful Stewards: Our Clients entrust us with the Stewardship of many resources: Their capital; Their future well-being; The resources required to accomplish their projects; The health of the eco-systems surrounding the work we undertake. The Carbon footprint of our actions. We take this responsibility with great seriousness.
We Are Good Partners: We are committed to elevating all members of our teams. Our work is a collaborative act, we seek to build up everyone around us, to support them, to foster their careers, and to constantly help our associated practitioners to achieve.
We Are Socially Responsible: our firm is becoming a certified Benefit Corporation. We believe that a firm commitment to social responsibility is uniquely fulfilling, and brings great dividends to all involved.