Our firm's approach to making buildings involves both the pragmatic and the artistic. Our use of telecommunications, computers, management systems and consultants providea sound basis for production work but it is the spirit of artistic inquiry, the search for excellence, the teamwork, and the will to build which really energize the work of our office. The ongoing exploration of critical issues currently challenging contemporary architecture fuels much of the debate around projects: the rationalization of the ideal and the real; the transformation of intentions into realization; the role of convention and invention; the reciprocity between monument and fabric, public and private, the individualand the collective; the possibilities in permanence and impermanence, the static and the dynamic; and the challenge of growth and change. Our firm abhors making which leads to disposable and inconsequential objects infavor of thoughtful making which is experiential and leads to tangible ideals, cultural grounding and enduring essence.