“Nature,” says Buzz Yudell, “in its endless complexity and extraordinary elegance, is our most profoundly inspiring influence.” With the late architect Charles Moore, Yudell (left) and John Ruble 30 years ago formed the “spirited collaboration” of Moore Ruble Yudell, which early on established an identity as intrinsically concerned with place-making and environmental context—and with celebrating design’s human and social components. Now with a portfolio encompassing a broad spectrum of public and private projects—the United States Embassy in Berlin; planning, student housing and performing arts centers for various universities; a Southern California church designed in concert with architect-sponsored community workshops—Moore Ruble Yudell has been honored by the AIA with its 2006 Architecture Firm Award.

Residences are taken on selectively, their “unique potential for exploration,” says Ruble, being the deciding factor. “We begin by listening, by engaging in a dialogue about the client’s needs and aspirations. The availability of more sustainable building materials, along with the increasingly greater interest in ‘green’ design, is allowing us to take these explorations to a higher level of sophistication and implementation.” Adds Yudell, “Architecture is not an abstraction but a social and environmental art. At its best, it creates a dynamic, transcendent balance between building, place and inhabitants.”

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