Culture

We designed our new office space to encourage collaboration and creative synergy. A studio environment fosters team-based problem solving, elbow-to-elbow, rather than office-to-office. By bringing more voices to the table, ideas infuse our discussions and the exchange of expertise and opinion is encouraged.

Learning is fundamental to the practice of architecture. We offer a great deal of support to new architects, from advocating for registration, creating formal continuing education programs and sponsoring noon-hour design seminars. We engage and challenge talented young designers who can learn from our broad range of project opportunities. They are supported by senior architects and principals who lead our knowledge areas and ensure our work is informed by diverse expertise. This approach informs our most successful projects and a working environment that inspires creativity every day.

Shepley people are optimistic, enthusiastic, conceptual problem solvers. Our architectural staff must have highly developed analytical and rigorously methodical skills, but we find our most artistic ideas come from people who also have a passion for new perspectives. We encourage the opposing view, and we expect our people to be outspoken. A high percentage of our staff are LEED-accredited professionals.

Our job is to implement institutional transformation through design. Institutional clients, the core of our business, require us to find ways to revitalize their buildings and spaces to anticipate change that will enhance the lives of the people who inhabit them. We are a firm with a reputation for designing buildings of enduring value. That guiding design mission is no different from our firm's mission: address today's challenges and needs while creating a strategy for the future - a culture that embraces change and growth.