Santa Barbara | Venice

Our Process

It is only through the work of teams - comprised of clients, architects, engineers and
other consultants - that projects of vision and substance are realized. Blackbird
Architects is continually refining its abilities to lead, coordinate and participate in
the collaborative endeavor. The firm assembles the best team available for each
project, and takes pride in building good relations as well as good places. We find
that people with different backgrounds offer unique points of view and lead us to
new and unexpected discoveries (solutions). The process of realizing a projects
should be rewarding and it should be a pleasure.

Blackbird Architects is itself a coherent team. Like-minded yet diverse, the Partners,
key designers and collaborators bring expertise from diverse countries, cultures
and endeavors. This has led us to respect many points of view and sets of priorities
as integral to the quality of our work.

We pride ourselves on being good listeners, and on being able to translate our
clients' needs into thoughtful design. This has led Blackbird Architects to develop
uncommonly clear, colorful and striking graphic communication techniques for use
in our programming, outreach and design process. We find that attractive and clear
communication of good design is critical in an ever more complex and participatory
approvals process.

philosophy projects people contact us
  light     texture     place     water     identity     refinement     green     life     ecology     growth     habitat     material     energy