Why STA?

90% of the STA clients are repeat or referral.

We believe that conscientious design has a powerful influence on social progress and the human experience. Thoughtless design creates limitations, reduces efficiencies, and distracts missions. Design that thinks beyond creates change and gets results.

Our job is to interpret the identity, style, and culture of our clients. We’re not mimicking trends, and we’re not designing for our own aesthetic agenda.

There is a time and a place for wild imaginings, but we aren't just winging it. Through our breadth and level of inquiry, we expand the body of research that thinks beyond disciplines, bridges gaps, transcends niches, and melds related and unrelated fields.

We start fresh: We imagine how every environment should work and be experienced. We translate these ideal outcomes into realities. Seriously. Many design firms have the junior staff reheating some tweaked version of an old project.

We've been called clever. And not just for our designs. We’re clever at managing the chaos that disrupts your ability to operate while in transition.

We connect the people, stories, and purpose ensuring that the design solution is unique and that the pride is shared.

We’re listeners. We listen until we “get” it. We start off every project by listening to our clients’ ambitions, needs, wants, and budget. When collaborating with a client that has multiple patents, has launched 6 businesses, is on the Fortune 500, or is going to change all of our lives with the next big widget...we need to listen.

We contribute generously to the fields and communities that are thinking forward and leading the democratization of architecture and design.

Our credibility, experience, and willingness to take a “deeper look” ensures that we excavate a holistic strategy that juggles the constraints, initiates energizing ideas, innovates a sustainable path forward, and ensures a return on investment.