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  Firm Profile
Founded in 1964, Herbert S. Newman and Partners PC is a collaboration led by Herbert S. Newman, Joseph Schiffer, Richard Munday, Peter Newman, and Mavis Terry.

Our firm has completed a wide variety of private and public projects throughout the United States, and has established a national reputation for the design of new buildings and the renovation and restoration of existing buildings of many architectural types. These include projects for academic, corporate, institutional, religious uses, and urban design.

As a practice we are dedicated to a human-centered approach to architecture. We base each design on the understanding of psychological needs and human behavior patterns that we have developed over many years, and on our experience that every new project offers opportunities for community-building.

We believe that architecture should acknowledge and honor the vital function of tradition in the life of society. We also believe that it can absorb and express the forces of social and technological change in ways that reveal new possibilities for human experience in the future.

A tenet of our work is the idea that the primacy of space, the clarity of path and structure, the luminance of natural light, and the humanizing quality of natural materials, are essential to making a lasting and beneficial impact on the environment
in which people live, work, and play.



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