Culture
Design. Experience. Partnership.
These are the values that shape our firm. We live these ideals daily, and the way we work is deliberately designed to foster them. This combination of clear values, motivated staff, and intentional processes shapes our culture.
We thrive in a cooperative, participatory design environment, where we all think and work together to achieve our clients’ objectives. Every individual’s experience builds our collective expertise, and we encourage everyone to participate in a dialogue of ideas, without exception.
We cultivate our culture through physical and virtual workspaces: open office team clusters and collaboration software that transcends geographical distance. We are committed to fostering creativity in a setting that promotes mutual respect among all participants.
Design.
We choose to make a meaningful and positive impact in our world through the act of design.
Experience.
We shape architecture for its power to form the human experience.
Partnership.
We foster meaningful partnerships with our clients, our collaborators, and the communities we serve.
Design.
We choose to make a meaningful and positive impact in our world through the act of design.
Experience.
We shape architecture for its power to form the human experience.
Partnership.
We design for others, and we are fulfilled by creating partnering relationships with ourselves and our clients.
1:1
Male to Female Ratio
Our workforce is split 50% female and 50% male. This is huge! It eliminates any dominant voice influenced by traditional gender bias.
50%
of our team are either a
millennial or younger
Here, you will find someone who relates to you, peers that can provide support and similar perspective.
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Office Initiatives
We believe in continuously building a culture which respects your needs to embrace your work and build on your strengths.
Friday Forums
Most Fridays, you can find our staff sharing lunch to review a project case study, discuss lessons learned, and debate best practices. Individuals and teams prepare these presentations and lead interactive, lively conversations about our profession.
Charrette-a-tete
Charette: an intensive effort to finish a project. Tête-à-tête: a private conversation. These sessions are open to all and orchestrated to engage staff in design-intensive conversations that advance a current project-specific design problem.
Architecture Show & Tell
Staff share school thesis projects, previous work, unique interests, and honed hobbies in a forum that encourages dialogue. Together, we refine our presentation and listening skills while learning about and bonding with each other.
Celebrations
We celebrate important events and employee successes at our office. We sing to those celebrating birthdays, applaud career and project achievements, and toast firm milestones.
Our values are rooted in respect for all people and responsibility to human society.
This is who we are and why we endeavor to continuously better ourselves and the practice of architecture.
Oh! And we have dog Fridays 🙂
