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Urban Design
Guida Moseley Brown Architects holds the view that the best places, towns, cities and campuses are made when the buildings are harmonious and well mannered, sharing an interpretation of place that has grown over time in a way that can be called “group-form”.
This view further holds that architecture contributes the primary role to the larger environment in defiance of self-expression and fashion. Like all of the firms's work, the approach to urban design always commences with an exploration of the context and extant meaning of the place. From that basis, the work endeavours to create relationships between urban and landscape forms that respond appropriately to its context while expressing their own clarity of design intentions.
Carefully integrated into the larger realm of the environment, the firm's urban design work seeks to be timeless and natural to the precise place.
Where the context is of an almost non-existent architectural character, one neutral in form and removed from any overt urban references, the design process takes its cues from the the peripheral, sometimes natural setting for a determinant environment. This usually leads to an architecture freed from the constraints of form and expression that operate within a more urban context.
Photograph John Gollings