An enterprise of forward-looking practitioners, Shape offers a contemporary approach to architecture, transforming constraints into opportunities at every turn. Shape repeatedly forms alliances with like-minded professionals spanning the fields of engineering, sustainability, public art, and planning, in order to expand its ability to take on broad-based projects. When working alone or with an array of consultants, Shape rigorously examines the pragmatics of site, code, and building systems to arrive at an inventive and inspired solution to a given design inquiry.
Shape operates on buildings and landscapes within a larger environmental and cultural context, always aware that small moves at a local level trickle up to the regional and even global scale. Implementing a small patch of permeable landscape has a measurable impact on the surrounding watershed just as the freeing of a small piece of public space has a perceptible impact on the life of a city.