VISION
All good design starts with Vision.  Vision to identify the problems.  Vision to see design alternatives.  Vision to bring the "Big Idea" to those design alternatives.  This is the process by which good architecture is made.

EXPERIENCE
Vision without experience is like a nail without a hammer: useless.  It is only through years of meaningful experience that an architect develops the critical, analytic and empirical talent to develop a vision that is attainable.

COMMITMENT
Without the architect's commitment  to continually respond to the seemingly unending and insurmountable challenges which occur over the life of a project, the Vision, deemed attainable through Experience, will exist only on paper.  A superior architect commits, fully, to each and every commission.