Quality design solutions are responsive, but responsive to what? Architecture is responsive to people, function, and financial considerations. Good design balances these issues. Brown Architecture seeks to expand the traditional development approach beyond the property line. We strive for solutions that are responsive to community. Our passion is facilitating partnerships and collaborative responses to create opportunity from the urgent climatic and social challenges facing earth.

Our experience includes working with a diverse base of public and private clients. We believe in communities and projects that integrate people and budget with site history, ecological context, local materials, environmental and social concerns.  We are skilled leaders in the participatory programming process, and documenting the present and future needs of multiple stakeholders. Embracing diverse goals requires an integrated, systems thinking design approach, which creates engaging solutions.

Our extensive knowledge of energy conservation and efficiency, daylight control, rainwater harvesting, renewable energy, and environmentally preferable practices, serve to integrate multiple disciplines into dynamic and appropriate projects. This approach has established us as leaders in the green building movement. We also offer holistic green design consulting services to building owners, developers and other designers. To that end we implement the latest in Building Information Modeling and Energy Modeling software and maintain a network of like minded collaborators.