Academic spaces challenge our skill as designers, collaborators, and facilitators since they must serve many user groups effectively, adhere to budget and schedule, and offer enduring beauty and functionality.

Stakes this high call for a process that effectively engages myriad groups and perspectives in open dialogue to mine their collective wisdom and build consensus. Through organized conversations that engage all client groups and constituencies, we synthesize input into unified and coherent design criteria and create architecture that addresses current objectives and anticipates future needs. As a multidisciplinary design firm, we apply insights across specialties in architecture, interiors, consumer environments, sustainable design, and historic preservation and adaptive reuse to an institution’s multifaceted program and complex goals to create vital buildings that add meaning and value to their communities.