VSBA Architects & Planners serves academic, cultural, civic, and other institutional clients, offering a full range of services from planning and programming through design, construction, and occupancy.
Our office is an open studio where partners, experienced architects, and interns work side by side in a highly collaborative atmosphere. Information and ideas flow freely as concepts are conceived, developed, and documented. Principals are fully engaged with each project and project teams stay together for the duration of the project.
The firm’s working methods are collaborative and engaging. We think broadly, weaving together concerns for institutional strategies, cultural and physical contexts, economic impacts, environmental effects, and many other perspectives. We get to know our clients and their diverse communities, from users, administrators, and operators to neighbors and community members, and we help to understand and balance their sometimes competing needs.
VSBA was founded in 2012 as the next generation of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. We expand on their philosophy of respect for clients’ aspirations, appreciation of context, and imaginative design.