Schwartz/Silver maintains its founding idea of integrating creativity, discovery and conscientious practice through collaboration among its architects and clients. This professional interaction -- fostered by our open studio space in downtown Boston -- supports the work of all our projects and gives us the energy to find new forms for new challenges. Our practice serves academic institutions, libraries, museums, public agencies and private individuals, with designs for new construction, renovations and planning studies. Many projects combine new architecture and historically significant older buildings, with several of them recognized in our six AIA National Honor Awards and over thirty AIA regional and chapter awards. We believe that the best design results from a combination of the architect's creative talents with a thoughtful engagement with a client. To do that, we research and document the environment of each project, its particular circumstances and the human needs they reflect, and test our ideas against that understanding. When a dedicated client joins our process of exploration and exchange, they become our partner, and together we begin to discover the sources of meaningful architecture.