Introducing: Fusion — The Performance of Architecture

For decades, our work has embodied the integration of design and performance that is essential to the creation of humane and sustainable buildings of any type. To achieve this integration amidst the programmatic intricacy, technological complexity and intense energy use of hospitals and laboratories, we draw on our almost ninety-year history of progressive innovation in addition to an inclusive, collaborative, research-oriented culture that has become a model for the profession.
 
Fusion presents PAYETTE’s philosophy and traces the firm’s contributions through concise histories of laboratory and hospital design. It explores the core principles that underlie our work—Identity and Transformation, Materiality and Craft, Taming Complexity and Measuring Performance—and digs deeply into seven of the firm’s most recent projects. Other chapters describe the process of nurturing the design excellence and practice culture that earned PAYETTE the 2019 AIA Architecture Firm Award.