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Athenaeum International provides the opportunity for clients to engage actively in the design of their environments in order to create substantial performance improvements that suit the needs of each individual.

We make it essential that 21st Century individuals and organizations have an environment that challenges them to reach their potential and that of their enterprise. Evolving and creating client environments that match the pace of the Information Age.

To design a 21st century environment; the designer must see and communicate, through the environment, the conscious ability to evolve. Neither patched-up fixes nor wholesale redesign will suffice in today's rapidly changing workplaces. As the people within the work environment expand their horizons, even as the initial environment is being built, so too must the environment expand its ability to serve. Individual elements must be created which can be replaced, when outgrown, with new elements which still complement the entire system.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s approach to design formation was to combine architectural, construction and engineering skills with the needs of the client to create something greater than either the professionals or the client could create alone. Wright’s philosophy was that the building should help the client become what they could be, a quality the client was never able to articulate at the outset. Design Formation should bring in the qualities of invention, exploration, shared discovery, the process of something being brought to life, and the thing itself. The Design Formation model is a model about modeling, iterating, and using feedback continuously to inform and reform the plan. In both architecture and transition management, the final product should broaden, expand, challenge, push and recreate the original program.

Based on traditional design/build project management, Athenaeum International includes one aspect that is key to its difference: constant feedback that informs the project and requires the vision to be rebuilt at many different levels. MG Taylor's Design-Build-Use model inspires our methods, allowing us to work throughout the project with clients and contractors to offer the best possible design solutions. This method extends after the initial construction period to the ability to work with clients to continuously update the environment and to educate client knowledge workers in the practices that make optimum use of the environment.