Collaboration
Architecture is a collective art. The architect cannot swirl a cape and deliver a design without the collective input of others. As the scale and complexity of projects grows the number of different consultants, institutions, consultees, specialists, sub-contractors and contractors involved multiplies.
It is central to Hawkins\Brown's vision that we see each player as offering a valid input to the process, and, managed well, at each stage new ideas, questions or attitudes can help the project evolve, grow in detail, richness and complexity to respond to the complex forces of a project of any scale. If people understand enough about a project to become involved in a positive way they can act as advocates, supporting the building in its realisation and later in its management and care.
