Lord, Aeck & Sargent

Lord Aeck Sargent, a Katerra Company is an architecture and design firm with a history of creating environments people want to use and preserve.

With offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; and Washington, DC; our firm has eight practice areas: science/technology, higher education, arts/culture, historic preservation, housing/mixed-use, urban design and planning, interior design and landscape architecture.

We share a common mission of providing responsive design, technological expertise and exceptional service in order to provide our clients with the best possible facilities that will serve them well into the future.

Our portfolio includes museums, arts centers, government buildings, laboratories, corporate headquarters, education facilities, conference facilities and planning services ranging from campus master plans to neighborhood plans. Our services range from master planning and programming to design, construction administration and facility management support.

The design staff at LAS represents a broad range of experiences in design and construction. Our staff includes registered architects, interior designers, materials specialists, land planners, cost estimators and zoning specialists.

Our team is proud of its long-standing reputation for providing exceptional service to repeat clients including Arizona State University, the National Park Service, Duke University Medical Center, the University of Michigan, Board of Regents University System of Georgia, The University of Houston System, Western Michigan University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Eastern Michigan University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Woodruff Arts Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

We consider ourselves fortunate to be providing professional planning services on a repeat basis to clients such as Central Atlanta Progress, Midtown Alliance, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Louisville Metro, Town of Chapel Hill, Atlanta Housing Authority, Columbia Housing Authority, and Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

Our projects have been featured in over 500 articles in various publications. We have been awarded more than 150 awards including national distinctions such as three R&D Magazine Laboratory of the Year and Special Mentions Awards as well as multiple AIA Honor Awards for Excellence in Architecture for our work with a wide variety of clients, including the Georgia Public Health Laboratory, the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Georgia State Capitol.

At LAS, our goal is to create buildings that have a restorative, positive impact on the building's inhabitants and to reduce the negative impact of construction on the environment. We have practiced sustainability in architecture since the early 1990s and believe in using an analytical approach to optimizing building performance.

Additionally, LAS has become one of the first architecture firms in the country to adopt The 2030 Challenge, an initiative that calls on the global building sector to immediately reduce energy usage by 50 percent in new buildings and major renovations in order to avoid hazardous climate change.