Lord Aeck Sargent is an architecture and design firm with a history of creating environments people want to use and preserve. ... We thrive in the midst of complex projects that require depth of experience and cross-discipline collaboration. For 70 years responsive design has been our guiding philosophy, delivering uniquely creative responses to each project's every detail. The result is thoughtful solutions that respond to the site, the context, the users and you. Lord Aeck Sargent is a full-service, award-winning firm with over 3,000 projects completed. With offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Lexington, Kentucky; and Washington, DC; our firm has eight practice areas: science + technology, higher education, arts & culture, historic preservation, housing & mixed-use, urban design & planning, landscape architecture and interior design. read more