CORE VALUES

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Architecture is the integration of form and space and the principles that control their organization. These elements are the basis of a pattern language which enables the space to harmonize with its surroundings and still cater to its inhabitant's unique needs. What is new is the idea that a work of architecture can also be a productive tool of human economy. Emerging with this, is the idea that the workplace can be an expression of living art and that this is not only possible but necessary in today's world.

The workplace is the expression of the work process, style, purpose and organization of those who build and use it. We now know that through physical comfort, exposure to variety in the environment and increased informal communication, innovative environments do have a marked positive impact. Why not use this powerful tool of the environment to advantage? Why not make the building a tool for wealth production?

Together with MG Taylor Corporation, Athenaeum International, has made an active, aggressive search for an understanding of how environment effects people. We have used this knowledge and have applied these principles to making the workplace work.

In a world of exponentially growing complexity and change, Athenaeum International's environments are designed, built and managed to remove every possible block from individual and group creativity and productivity. They are environments where the pace and productivity of work can be accelerated to meet and exceed the changes happening in the world. In addition, they are environments where the pace can be slowed to provide prospect and refuge for the contemplation time necessary for creative activity. The environment adjusts to the work being performed instead of the users adjusting to the arbitrary constraints of a fixed layout.

In the complex design and construction necessary to meet these goals, the expertise from many disciplines has to be integrated into one functioning whole. The result has to serve the client's preset requirements, to challenge the users to evolve to their full capabilities, and to remain viable through the entire life-cycle of the building.