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Creating InterestingUnusualMeaningful Buildings
Through creativity, imagination, and contagious enthusiasm
Ted Hoffman and Michael Facundo have been creating interesting, unusual, and meaningful buildings for a diverse client base that includes housing developers, childcare providers, charter schools, and themselves.
50
Years of experience
100+
Unique Buildings
“Belief in the significance of architecture is premised on the fact that we are, for better or worse, different people in different places- and on the conviction that it is architectures task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be.”
– Alain de Botton
DESIGN
We create structural beauty by innovating
Acquainted with the latest hi-tech, design-automating software, the two long term principals prefer to use enduring, old-fashioned methods: Listening to the client. Immersing themselves into the site. Drawing over and over until their vision unites the client's goals, the building's purpose, and the setting itself.
Award Winning
Established Team
All architecture is local The hardest thing to do is make a place that is rooted in its time and space. Great buildings, nay, great art in any genre look, sound, and feel like that’s the only way or place they could be.
– Ted Hoffman