Since its foundation in 1991, Haworth Tompkins has been exploring the rich, complicated relationship between people and architecture. Although the buildings illustrated in this book span decades and cover a wide range of types and scales, they are united by an engagement with physical and cultural context, a sensitivity to time, a pleasure in material quality and an examination of architectures role in public, institutional and private life. At the heart of each completed project is a creative collaboration with a specific client, with the consistent ambition to reinforce a collective sense of place and community. Much of the work has focused on the complementary relationships between physical space and human activity in the territories of culture, making and dwelling.