OUR VALUES

Our CREDO defines our core principles as an organization, with 10 actions and behaviors that define our contribution to architecture and how we collaborate with one another. We also share five core values, with two that are specifically focused on our Global Impact—Uncompromising Design and Rigorous Curiosity.

Uncompromising Design reflects our process of using evidence and building science to inform design, viewing nature as a partner, and centering an understanding of climate risk and action as vital to architecture’s role in our world. To meet new challenges brought on by the climate crisis, we adopt a Rigorous Curiosity to develop innovative design responses that fundamentally shift architecture’s contribution to sustainable development. These values coalesce within our CREDO of People Architecture to consider the planet and its citizens as equal beneficiaries of design.

1. Find your voice

2. Become a multi-lingual thinker

3. Have a client service mentality like the concierge at a 6-star hotel

4. Listen with intent

5. Consider the safety and wellbeing of the planet and its citizens

6. Work across all scales

7. None of us are as smart as all of us

8. Let ideas breathe

9. Dive deep into problem solving

10. Package every idea with a purpose

1. Uncompromising design

2. Rigorous curiosity

3. Effective communication

4. Collective intelligence

5. Dynamic careers

1. Our commitments

2. Design

3. Operations

4. Advocacy