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We feel that every scheme drawn on the board or plotted on the screen carries with it
deep moral responsibility. We see architecture as a moral process within our culture.
A primary concern within our team discussion process, even before a single line is
drawn on a particular project, is the social meaning and implications of our architecture in the context of our cities and country towns and villages. A self-critical approach is very important to
us in our work and our aim is to develop site specific, user sensitive and historically influenced solutions.
We draw from the deep well of a European Architecture that contains the strands of Modernism, Rationalism and Expressionism.
We are conscious of our own needs to define our place in the world aiming for an
individual balance: between the comfort and harmony of the senses : of belonging to place; of association and context; and of identity of the particular places that are our heritage and, in contrast, of
the general need for connections between history and the here and now, between architectural theory and practice and between the freedom and imagination of drawing and the disciplined rationale of
building and its dictates of budget and time.
Our commitment, then, is to the integration of buildings, cities and landscape.
We accept our responsibility to enhance and protect our built heritage and environment. We have a particular interest in the insertion of modern buildings within the given context of a building site.
Our approach to each building project is in a fresh manner exploring the brief by a
range of design methods.
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