In their architectural integration of social organization, complex programmatic functioning, place making, and regional fit, the projects show here reflect concerns that are central to the work of Barton Phelps & Associates. Founded in 1984, the firm provides planning and design services for new public and private projects that range broadly in function and scale. Our design approach takes physical and social contexts as primary generators of built form and demonstrates the potential of modernist buildings to interpret their surrounding landscapes in ways that are at once accessible and elegant. The result is an approachable, articulate architecture that we like to call modernism with a difference.