Architectural fashion goes through its cycles faster than the miniskirt does. Up one week, down the next. If the symbol of the eighties is the broken pediment above every entrance or skyscraper top, the nineties icon will be the bracketed barrel vault. The most profound thing about American architecture which surpasses fashion is that it has reinterpreted the continuum of some piece of history or reference which is familiar, married to a specific American site with local materials. “It is at once both learned; from a far off place and native.” We are guided by this idea as we combine our training in architectural history with our knowledge of the local, immediate culture.