A collective of 140 designers operating at the apex of technologically complex buildings, Boston’s Payette challenges conventional hypotheses and cultivates design innovation without preconception. The think-tank environment established by the firm’s third generation of principals bolsters a spirit of entrepreneurship and discovery that leads to work exemplifying architectural excellence and the higher ideals of service to humanity.

Since the firm’s founding, in 1932, Payette has been dedicated to finding a balance between delivering innovative complex research, scientific, and healthcare projects, and addressing the critical issues facing the world at large. The firm’s pursuits have been widely recognized with nearly 150 design awards since 1998, including two AIA/COTE Top Ten Awards, the AIA/IDP Outstanding Firm Award, and the Chicago Athenaeum 2018 American Architecture Award.

Despite the firm’s singular name, through its 86 years it has demonstrated a propensity for sustaining itself through deep investment in its youth. Now led by a team of 10 partners, building science is a central tenant of Payette’s design process, and its portfolio is bursting with beautiful buildings designed with rigor and guidance from overarching themes of building craft, embedded nature, energy efficiency, and programmatic complexity.