Design Philosophy
As human innovation places increasing strain on climate systems, social relationships, and equity, the firm’s work seeks to simplify and reconnect, bringing people back to nature and to one another. Quality is expressed through restraint and clarity, through gestures shaped to endure beyond moment or style. Form is purposeful. Material expression is inseparable from use. Architecture is understood as an active participant in reinforcing the social contract by making collective values visible and supporting democratic, inclusive communities.
Central to this quality is MTA's capacity to listen, collaborate, and steward design intent across cultures and contexts. Through collaborations with international practices including Maki and Associates and Charles Correa Associates, the firm brings technical depth, cultural sensitivity, and care to the realization of complex work. Across all scales, the practice reflects the belief that purposeful design can act as a form of repair, to the climate, to communities, and to relationships with land and place. Grounded in listening, material intelligence, and an ethic of responsibility, the firm’s work demonstrates how architecture of quality can be both beautiful and meaningful, contributing to a more sustainable, equitable, and collective future.
Generative, Generous, Regenerative
Quality is expressed through restraint and clarity, through gestures shaped to endure beyond moment or style.
Listening, Respect, and Shared Authorship
This work begins with relationship building and continues through design processes that allow Indigenous knowledge to guide decisions about place, movement, and meaning.
Building on Our Past, Designing for Canada’s Future
The practice reflects the belief that purposeful design can act as a form of repair, to the climate, to communities, and to relationships with land and place.