“The poignancy of the natural landscape,” says Peter Bohlin, acts as a primary stimulus to the architecture for which his firm has become internationally known. “We strive to create extraordinary places that fit, as well, the nature of each of our clients.” Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, a 42-year-old practice that has grown to 150 people and five offices—Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, Seattle and San Francisco—has been at the forefront of the “green” movement in building. “We’ve always viewed sustainable design as not only the right thing to do but also an opportunity to make richer and more powerful architecture,” Bohlin comments, noting the “innovations and increasing possibilities in the palette of materials”—largely wood, glass and steel—that he uses.

The firm has received more than 300 design awards for an aesthetic based on a quiet rigor that is equal parts intellectual and intuitive. The 1994 Architecture Firm Award given by the AIA cited Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s scope of practice and body of work; that work continues to range in scale and building type from major institutional structures to the Apple stores worldwide to a collection of private residences. “Our goal on every project is to encompass both the practical and emotional elements of architecture in a sensitive response to the particular environment and circumstance.”

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