Background

Cooper Carry is one of America's most dynamic, context-driven design firms focused on the creation of EXCEPTIONAL PLACES - neighborhoods, buildings, spaces and landscapes crafted to enrich the experience of life for the people who occupy them.

We bring an internationally recognized team of design professionals to the wide variety of project types we engage in, all united in the pursuit of excellence through the practice of connective design. Since our founding 1960, we have steadily built a reputation for thoughtful design applied to diverse projects throughout the United States, in the Caribbean and worldwide. Each project is a composition of imaginative connections among buildings and their components, and among buildings, their sites, and the communities of which they form a part.

Cooper Carry's professional team includes five key disciplines: planners, architects, interior designers, landscape architects and environmental graphic designers. These professionals work within specialized practice groups with expertise in

Corporate	Government
Hospitality	Interiors
K-12 Education	Landscapes
Mixed-Use	Office
Residential	Retail
Science+Technology	Sustainable Design
Planning	Transit
University

as well as in The Center, a planning and urban design studio drawing on the talents of the entire company along with the skills of outside experts.

Connectivity is the centerpiece of our architectural, planning and urban design approach. Our method treats landscape as equal in importance to buildings and, therefore, we pursue excellence in landscape design just as carefully. Our process combines architecture and landscape in a rich composition of functional, thoroughly connected spaces designed to unite the experience of indoors and out.

Sustainability is the foundation of Cooper Carry's connective design philosophy. Inspired by the interconnections among natural systems that support our lives — plants, animals and the physical world they inhabit — we collaboratively pursue creative design solutions patterned with nature as our model that fits well with the living world around us.

The connective design process assesses the sustainability of materials, the suitability of assembly methods, and the options for organizing buildings and landscapes into compositions that maximize the advantages of solar orientation, weather, daylighting, building conditioning, and other variables that affect the building's environmental performance. And we study ways to optimize the human habitat in our designs to elevate the quality of life for the occupants.

Our commitment to environmentally responsible design is evident in our comprehensive, ongoing in-house education program to support LEED accreditation of team members and provide ongoing programs to increase our command of the techniques of sustainable design.