Our Values

  1. Sometimes the boldest idea is simplicity.[i] We believe in bold action inspired by big creative thinking.
  2. Architecture is an art. We believe in art as an instigator of wonder and delight.[ii]
  3. Human actions have imperiled our environment.[iii] We believe design must lead the way to solutions.[iv]
  4. Our times require change. We believe in architecture as an agent of change, and that change that comes through continuous struggle.[v]
  1. “There is a pleasure in the victory and wonder of being simple.” Lina Bo Bardi, Lina Bo Bardi : obra construida, Barcelona, SP: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., 2014
  2. Alberti, Leon Battista. On the Art of Building in Ten Books. Transl. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988
  3. Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2014
  4. R. Buckminster Fuller, Everything I Know, https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/
  5. “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” Martin Luther King Jr., The Death of Evil upon the Seashore, sermon given at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, May 17, 1956. https://www.si.edu/spotlight/mlk