ARCHITECTURE is an act of artistic engineering, a process that frames visionary thinking within the context of geometry and the material world. We regard each project as an eagerly anticipated
riddle posed by the client's deepest desires, program requirements, site characteristics and
budget considerations. We draw upon the sustainable building methodologies of cultures
both old and new to bring forth a precise, functional solution—one that cannot be
compartmentalized into a specific genre but instead creates its own.
The result is an object that is of lasting totemic value, sensitive to the environmental footprint
it leaves behind.
Edgar Papazian, ra aia
Index of Work
Tacoma Art Museum Plaza / Portland Residence / Stealth Addition / Bull Mountain / Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial / Clinton Presidential Library / Groen Hoek Boathouse / Notebooks / NYC Apartment / Asplund Library / NYC Apartment 2 /
Writings
“Slat-ism!” / On Hiring an Architect / Jazz Music and Architecture / Doon Architecture in Portland Spaces Magazine / Kevin Cavenaugh-Rick Potestio / Portland - Critical Regionalism Redacted / doon, domus, house / Culture / On Architecture / Technology / Inspiration / Ararat /
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