Listening is the most important skill we offer a client when developing their architectural vision. Knowing what questions need to be asked to inform ourselves about what makes our client’s project unique, knowing how to communicate our thoughts back to that client and then how to come to a mutual understanding of a project’s goals is so important. Once this occurs, we can move forward to arrange and incorporate special architectural elements into a design that, whenever possible, incorporates a strong sense of place and purpose, wrapped around the realities of function, budget and schedule. It is this weaving of communication, creativity and constraint that ultimately makes a successful project.