Richard Dattner

Richard Dattner & Partners Architects has created architecture in balance - realising its clients' highest aspirations while respecting shared social responsibilities and building within available resources. This architecture balances order and openness, building and context, permanence and flexibility, monumentality and human scale. Each building is considered to be in a conversation with its users and surroundings, responding to their needs in a dialogue of sensitivity and respect. The civil architecture of Richard Dattner aims to house, protect, nurture and ennoble this discourse of civilisation. Some of the projects included in this book are the New York Botanical Garden Discovery Center, Columbia University School of Social Work, Goodwill Games Swimming and Diving Complex, and the Estee Lauder Corporate Headquarters.