Quinn Evans Honored with AIA’s 2024 Architecture Firm Award
The annual AIA Architecture Firm Award is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture practice.
We are a collective of design thinkers dedicated to the stewardship and transformation of places and communities.
We revitalize places to bring people together, strengthening communities with solutions that last.
With an interdisciplinary team that includes historians, landscape architects, sustainability specialists, and interior designers working together in partnership with architects, we employ lifecycle thinking to design with context, history, and users in mind. Our future-forward mentality honors a history of a place, understanding the important value that places form on the memory, experience, and fabric of people’s lives.
We put people first in everything we do—in our work as stewards of the built environment and in leading our firm.
They lead the way as a firm that holds design excellence and sustainable stewardship in equal measure.
2023 CHAIR, AIA HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMITTEE ADVISORY GRoUp
Our Work
In tandem with high-performance designs, the positive impacts of building reuse are powerful and compounding. Existing places harbor enormous value in the form of invested ideas, culture, material, and carbon. Every project is an opportunity to understand and work on a unique combination of issues as well as to learn how solutions play out over time.
Our Process
We find that design thinking—informed by the synthesis of the best available information—accomplishes better, more resilient, and more holistic outcomes for both people and places.
Innovation
Our approach is people-focused: we strive to adapt places to perform better and meet their communities' needs. In the course of this work, we advance the art and science of building reuse by applying the latest research, tools, and methods. We're making strides in areas such as historic building information management (HBIM), which we're integrating with digital twins to create a powerful new stewardship tool.
Responsive Design
We approach every project with the goal of creating a welcoming experience for all users. Our work within the context of landmark public buildings has honed our ability to craft graceful and integrated solutions that enrich projects of all scales. We bring empathy and sensitivity as we design for the human experience.
Planning for
the Future
While preservation planning and architecture may conjure ideas about the past, these disciplines are about imagining the future. Fundamentally, they’re about stories. Through active engagement, we facilitate conversations, discover voices and ideas, and elevate them through design.
