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HOW WE WORK
At AWH Architects, we specialize in adaptive reuse, historic preservation, sustainable design, and Phius Passive House Consulting and Certification.
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Our approach focuses on creating equitable, context-driven spaces that respect history while building a sustainable future. We collaborate with clients from all walks of life, integrating diverse voices and perspectives to deliver socially, environmentally, and economically responsible solutions.
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We believe thoughtful, intentional design shapes how people interact with their surroundings—creating spaces that offer safety, comfort, and joy, extending beyond just function.
Dive INTO OUR FIVE VALUES
PRAGMATIC
At AWH, pragmatism means prioritizing practical, client-focused solutions that balance function, efficiency, and flexibility. We embrace diverse perspectives and adapt our designs to real-world challenges, creating enduring spaces that serve evolving needs.
REUSE
Founded on the principle of reusing what we have, AWH pursues adaptive reuse and historic building rehabilitation as a way to combat unnecessary loss of our collective cultural heritage and embodied energy inherent in existing buildings
ENERGY
With every project, we assess the best way to integrate onsite energy production, utilize passive solar design, and harmonize the landscape with site and structure.
SOCIAL
How we design and what we build directly affects the human and social interactions. We can make it right as architects.
WATER
The average person wastes up to 30 gallons a day. Water is a precious resource and is life, don't waste it. We promote water capture and use, efficiency, and rainwater gardens.
GIVing BACK
We acknowledge that the segregation and inequality present today in our shared cities are made possible by architecture’s efforts. The deeply ingrained privilege and white, male, homogeneity in both academia and the profession have aligned architecture with profit-driven gentrification, neo-colonialism, and the marginalization of communities of color.
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Now is the time to challenge architecture’s complicity with oppression, and realign our efforts to prioritize justice and equality through our work; To combat the blight of unattainable housing, the lack of access to public spaces, and unhealthy environmental building standards; To throw off the shroud of pessimism, fear, and complacency, by committing ourselves to a sustained fight for equity. The work ahead of us is difficult, but we know that there is no other way forward.
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Our first step in this fight as a firm is our commitment is our collective, sustained contributions to the organizations we linked below. We admire these organizations for their commitment to making a real difference at the local scale.