we call our approach
CRITICAL STEWARDSHIP
Critical Stewardship is an approach to design based on the universal responsibility to history and the environment, valued through the lens of community.
The stewardship of our valuable resources (environmental, built or cultural) is emboldened by creativity, which is critical in both senses: essential yet offering critique. We must trust ourselves to make both bold and nuanced determinations about change based on research, analysis and context over dogmatic requirements (strict preservation techniques or environmental rating systems).
We embrace an approach that yields vastly different outcomes in different contexts.
critical stewardship operates across contexts.
we reposition beloved historic structures by blending historic intent and aspirational vision into a new whole.
structures of our more recent past compel us to reimagine bold, experimental form-making toward a transformed future.
we seek the intrinsic value in each space, knowing that even un-precious settings provide moments of inspiration.
we interpret natural landscapes, using architecture as a means to connect people with their environments.