Pugh + Scarpa is committed to conserving the environment and making intelligent use of our natural and cultural resources. We believe that societies across the globe are experiencing a shift in attitude from one merely concerned with surviving on earth to one concerned with changing how we live so that the earth can survive. We embrace this shift and seek to enhance the impact of sustainable design and development as a basic tenet of our practice. Rather than diminishing in meaning, the ideas of sustainability have the potential and power to enrich and broaden our culture as well as our architectural language. Pugh + Scarpa is an architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning firm founded in Santa Monica in 1991 and maintains offices in Santa Monica, California and Charlotte, North Carolina.