THE DECLARATION
Architects Declare believes that firms must lead with a strong message committed to action. If you represent a firm, please sign the declaration. Signatory practices must be engaged in architecture.
We hope that every US architectural practice will join us in making this commitment.
The interlinked crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and societal inequity are the most serious issues of our time. Buildings and construction play a major part, accounting for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while also having a significant impact on deforestation, habitat destruction, and species extinction.
Meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth's ecological boundaries demands a paradigm shift in our behavior in the building sector. Together with our clients and collaborators, we must design buildings, cities, and infrastructures as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating, and self-sustaining system.
The knowledge exists to begin that transformation now, but what has been lacking is collective will. As a sector, we must work together to reshape our approach to architecture and urbanism at the speed and scale the crises demand.
We commit to:
Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action among our clients, collaborators, and supply chains. Advocate for the rapid systemic changes required to address the climate and biodiversity crises, as well as the policies, funding priorities, and implementation frameworks that support these changes.
Act to address the disproportionate impact of these crises on disadvantaged communities and ensure that all mitigation and adaptation efforts address the needs of all people. Employ just labor practices, so that people of all backgrounds can participate in decision-making about the future of the designed environment.
Include life cycle costing, whole-life carbon modeling, and post-occupancy evaluation as part of our basic scope of work, to reduce both embodied and operational resource use. Adopt regenerative design principles.
Upgrade existing buildings for extended use as a less carbon-intensive alternative to demolition and new construction whenever there is a viable choice.
Advocate for detailed disclosure of material provenance and environmental impact by extractors, manufacturers, and distributors, to accelerate the shift to low-carbon, non-toxic, and ethically produced materials. Eliminate waste and support a rapid transition to circular economies.
Invest in research and technology development, guided by systems thinking, to further these goals, and share tools, data, and strategies on an open-source basis.
Establish climate change mitigation, biodiversity protection, and positive social impact as the key measures of our sector's success. Work to redirect the mentality of the building sector away from maximizing short-term returns toward durable investment for the long term. Set clearly articulated climate mitigation goals for every project and communicate them to our clients. Change the structure of awards programs to make these criteria the basis for recognition in architecture.
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How do I join?
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Read the declaration
Take time to evaluate and ensure that your company or organization is ready to commit to the principals in the declaration, including the mission to transform the practice and culture of architecture.
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Start a discussion at your firm
Through collective power and intersectional understanding change can occur. It takes all of us doing our part.
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Sign the Declaration
To sign and be the main contact for your firm, you must be a principal or partner, or otherwise have the authority to commit your firm as a signatory to US Architects Declare. You cannot sign using an info@ email address.
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Become a Signatory
Congratulations - you’ve taken a leadership position in the practice of architecture and are now a part of the growing commitment to create change.
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Get Involved
Join a working group, attend a signatory gathering or salon. Encourage your staff to join our mailing list and participate as a firm in US Architects Declare's ongoing programming. Together we can collectively work toward change in our practices and how we shape design and the built environment.
433 Signatory Firms
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[dhd] derek hoeferlin design
4|MATIV
A Kopetzky Studio
Aamodt / Plumb Architects
Abruña & Musgrave, Architects
Abruzzo Bodziak Architects
Actual Architecture Company
AD–WO
Adams Design Associates
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
AEDS | Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio
After Architecture
AGENCY
aldayjover architecture and landscape
All of the Above
All Terrain Architect, LLC
ALLL and Leapfrog Project
Alloy
Alterior Office
American Primitives
Amoia Cody Architecture
Andre Architecture
andrew berman architect
Andrew Goodwin Designs
Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
Andy and Dave
ARC / Architectural Resources Cambridge
Arch&Type
Architecture Agency
Architecture in Formation
Architecture Is Fun, Inc.
Architecture Research Office
Architecture Workers Combine
ARCHITECTUREFIRM
ArchitectureWorks
Architensions
Arnold Studio
AS•IS
Atelier Ten
atelierjones, llc
Austin + Mergold
AW Architects
Ballinger
BArC Studio
Barker Associates Architecture Office
Barry Price Architecture
Bau Land
BAU_Butzer Architects and Urbanism
Bell-Seong Architecture; Visible Weather
Ben Bruce Architecture
Bernheimer Architecture
Between Jobs
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
BIG- Bjarke Ingels Group
blank studio design + architecture
blink!LAB
BNIM
BODHGAIA ARCHITECTURE
Bora Architecture & Interiors
Boston Society for Architecture
Bradford Payne Architect, LLC
BRANDT : HAFERD
BRAVE / architecture
Brent Buck Architects
Brininstool + Lynch
Brooks + Scarpa
Buro Koray Duman
C&H Architects
Canopy / architecture + design, LLC.
CaVA Architects,llp
Chapman Architects
Charles Rose Architects
Cheng+Snyder
Christoff Finio Architecture
Cloud Hill Design, LLC
Clouds AO
CO Adaptive Architecture, PLLC
Coexist Build
coLAB studio, llc
Colorspace Architecture + Urban Design
Common Sense Design
commoncraft
COOKFOX Architects
Could Be Architecture
COULSON
crgarchitecture
Critical Broadcasting Lab
Cumby Architecture
Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP
Dädapt/SFSd
Dake Wells Architecture
Dameron Architecture
Dante Amato, AIA - Architect
Daphne
Daphne More AIA LLC
David A Parker RA
David Baker Architects
David D. Quillin Architecture
David Obuchowski Architects PLLC
Davidson Rafailidis
Davis Brody Bond, LLP
DDSao
DE Architects AIA
de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop
Deborah Berke Partners
Design Synergies Architecture
DiMella Shaffer
Dimensions
DOR Studio Architecture
Doris Sung
DPC Associates
DRAW Architecture and Urban Design
Drawing Agency
Drawing Conclusions LLC
DSGN AGNC
DSH // architecture
e-Architects
e+i studio
EASTON COMBS Architects
Ecological Design Group, Inc.
El Dorado
EHDD
Emily Moss
Erik Durbas Designs
Escher GuneWardena Architecture
EskewDumezRipple
EVIA Studio
FACT
FAD LLC
Fantastic Offense
Farzana Gandhi Design Studio
Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC
FIELD PARTI
Figure
foreground design agency
Formlessfinder
FrancoisdeMenil Architect, PC
Future Expansion
GAC
Gimeno Guitart
Goody Clancy
Greene Justice Architecture
Griffy Creek Studio LLC
Grimshaw
GROUND HERE
Gulf Coast DesignLab
Habitat Workshop
Hammersley Architecture
Hargreaves Jones
Hariri & Hariri Architecture
Harka Architecture
Harrison Atelier
Hawaii Off-Grid Architecture & Engineering
Heller Manus
Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects
Hight Jackson Associates
hMa
Hoffmann Architects
HOK
HOME-OFFICE
Houser Walker Architecture
hrdwrkshp
HumaNature Architecture, LLC
Ibañez Kim
In Balance Green Consulting
Inaba Williams
INC Architecture & Design PLLC
Interboro Partners
ISA
JAKLITSCH/GARDNER ARCHITECTS
JeffArchitect
Jendusa Design & Engineering, Inc
John Shafer and Assoc.
Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Johnson Lyman Architects
jones, partners: architecture
Joy Siegel Architect
JPAS
JSA
Kansas City Design Center
Karen Bausman
Karolina Kawiaka Studio
KD+ design build
keernsmith
Kennedy & Violich Architecture
KieranTimberlake
Kliment Halsband Architects
knitknot architecture
KOL/MAC Architecture + Design
Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.
Kostow Greenwood Architects
Krause Architecture + Interiors
Kripper Studio
Krueck+Sexton Architects
kw/h architecture
LA-Mas
Lake|Flato Architects
Landing Studio
Landry Smith Architect
larch lab
Lead Pencil Studio
lee and associates, inc. LAI
Leong Leong
Leupold Brown Goldbach Architects
LEVENBETTS Architects
Loci Architecture
LOJO Architecture
Lorraine Bonaventura Architect
LOT-EK
Louise Braverman Architect
Louise Harpman__PROJECTS
Love | Schack Architecture
Lutz Studio
M1DTW Architects
Magnusson Architecture and Planning
MAISON ORION
MAKE Architects
makeArchitecture
Marble Fairbanks Architects
Mark O'Bryan Architect
Marlon Blackwell Architects
Marvel Architects
MASASTUDIO - Marwan Al-Sayed + Mies Anderson Inc.
Mass & Surface Architecture
MASS Design Group
Matter Architecture Practice
MBB ARCHITECTS
MdeAS Architects
MGDK Architects
Michael Green
Michael K. Chen Architecture
MICHAEL MALTZAN ARCHITECTURE
MIIM Designs
Mitchell Joachim
MIXdesign
MODU
modus studio
Moorhead & Moorhead
Mork-Ulnes Architects
MOS
MPdL Studio
MSR Design
murmur
Myszak and Partners
N H D M
NADAAA
nARCHITECTS, PLLC
NEMESTUDIO
New Objects Design
Norelius Studio
NYVARCH Architecture
O'Riley Office
Object Projects
OBJECT TERRITORIES
Obra Architects
Odimo
Office (e.g.)
office ca
Office for Political Innovation
Office of Mobile Design
OJK Inc
Onion Flats
op.AL
OPA - Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects
opa - Operative Aria Architecture PLLC
Open Architecture Practice
Open Set
OSD
Out of Shape Architecture
OverUnder
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S
Palette Architecture
PARA Project
Paul Preissner Architects
PECKHAM Architecture
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Perkins Eastman
Peterson Rich Office
Piecework Design PLLC
PKSB Architects
Placetailor
Placework
Planh
Plot Strategies
PORT
Positive Energy
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU
Primary Architecture
PROTOinc
Protz Studio
Pršić & Pršić
Putnam-Pritchard Interiors/NUBU Design
QDG Architecture
RAAB Architects
Rafael Vinoly Architects
Ramla Benaissa Architects
Ramona Albert Architecture
Re-a.d
re.dzine
Reardon & Co.
Red Dot Studio
Riverside Design
Robert Hutchison Architecture
Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers
Ronnette Riley Architect
Row Architecture
RUR Architecture DPC
Rural Studio, Auburn University
Sage and Coombe Architects
Sandoval Moots + architects
Sasaki
SCHAUM/SHIEH
SchemaFlows
Schiller Projects
Schissel Montgomery Architects
Scott Payette Architects
Scroggin Studio
Selldorf Architects
Shalom Baranes AssociatesShawn Lutz
Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects
SILO AR+D
SITU
SixTwentyOne
Slade Architecture
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects
Snohetta
Snow Kreilich Architects
SO - IL
Socle
Solakian
SPACE INDUSTRIES
Spacesmith, LLC
Sparano + Mooney Architecture
Spatzier
Spinagu Studio
SsD
STAT Architecture, PC
Steven Holl Architects
studio ai architects
Studio Ames
Studio Balcones
Studio Cadena
Studio Christian Wassmann
Studio Co Architecture
Studio Eber
Studio For
Studio G Architects
Studio Gang
studio J2 architects
Studio José Ibarra
Studio Joseph
studio K group
Studio Libeskind
STUDIO LUCK
Studio Luz Architects
Studio Mayd
Studio Modh Architecture
studio No. 11
Studio.e Architecture
studioSUMO
Supernormal
Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture ‰Û¢ Design
Susana Torre
SYNCRO Architecture Studio
Taalman Architecture
TAP
TE Studio
Techne
Tektonculture
Ten to One
Terreform ONE
Territorial Empathy
The Alter Architect's Studio, PLLC
the Lab-lab for architecture
The Open Workshop
Theo David Architects
thirds studio
Thomas Phifer and Partners
Thomas Roszak Architecture
Thornton Tomasetti
thread collective
Tibeb.Space
Tobin Studio PLLC
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects I Partners
Todd Zwigard Architects
tonic design
Tracy A. Stone Architect
Trahan Architects
TreanorHL
Tri-Lox
Trio Architecture
Tsao & McKown Architects
uma architecture & design
Urban Colab Architecture L.3.C
Urban Resilience Institute
Urban Works Agency
urban-interface, llc
UrbanLab
Variable Projects
Verona Carpenter Architects
Virginia Melnyk Designs
VMDO Architects, PC
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
W-Road
WAI Architecture Think Tank
WALLACE DESIGN GROUP, INC.
Water, Etc
WE-DESIGNS
WEISS/MANFREDI
William McDonough + Partners
Wolfgang & Hite
Woods Bagot
WORKac
WRNS Studio
WROAD
WRT
WXY architecture + urban design
Yale Urban Design Workshop
Young Projects
ZGF Architects
Zinn Architecture + Interiors