In 1977 Ed Weinstein founded an architecture office with Michael Canatsey to design custom homes for families in the Seattle area. Over the next four-plus decades, his practice gained attention for the quality of buildings it produced and expanded its reach to design ever more complex projects serving larger communities in Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. The firm designed the National AIA Honor Award-winning mixed use building that was designated as “One of the 220 Key American Buildings of the 20th Century” (the Banner Building in Belltown), the first HUD HOPE VI mixed income community in the Northwest (NewHolly), and downtown’s flagship Fire Station 10. With each evolution, our focus on making thoughtfully conceived architecture available to everyone serves as a touchstone for the firm and quality shared by all the buildings we design. Today, Weinstein A+U provides comprehensive architecture and urban design services on a broad array of project types: urban mixed-use buildings, multi-family residential projects, adaptive reuse and renovation, academic, public sector, public safety facilities, not-for-profit facilities, office buildings, and places of worship. Methodology Our firm works together closely to be highly accomplished in a wide diversity of project types. As a generalist firm, our strength is not an expertise in any particular project type, but in a disciplined design approach that we bring to all projects, regardless of scale or type. Our approach recognizes that each project exists in a specific geographic, political, and economic context. The best design is conceived by a clear concept informed by the unique circumstances of each project and a rational decision-making process based on what we have learned. Our practice seeks to integrate architecture and urban design as part of this process to realize projects that positively contribute to their communities. We take the time to observe, document and analyze the site and its context to establish a unique concept for the design that guides our decision-making process throughout a project’s development. The resultant buildings are cohesive and wholly inseparable from their surroundings.