Contrivium Design + Urbanism, Inc. exploits the tension between the intellectual and concrete, and the sensual and abstract.  We believe that design is the collaboration and creative tension moving us from ideas and dreams to a common goal, advancing function, durability, and aesthetics.  We define urbanism using the environment around our designs with an understanding of the impact of the users and surroundings that interact with it.  Our mix of design and urbanism is a fountainhead for ambition and passion, not which contains the programmed and the everyday. 

We balance pragmatic and poetic in a space to find inspiration to play, relax, exercise and live; to grow, learn, and stretch the bounds of imagination, and for spirit to take flight.  We see light and life from our buildings, as the internal and external express an evolution of human scale and potential.  We welcome constraints, both physical and spiritual, as a challenge to be overcome.  The effort of breaking through the preconceived and the expected opens us to see nature and creation in a new way. 

We have a steadfast respect and awe for the wisdom of the past, and believe in its practical application and relevance as we search to innovate, designing in a way both timely and timeless.  We accept that design and urbanism is a never-ending, back-and-forth battle; every collaboration advances how we believe the world should be designed, and how people should react with their surroundings.