Beautiful, Responsive & Responsible
At Indigo, we believe that architecture has the power to put people in touch with their environment, each other, and their spiritual and cultural aspirations. Our mission is to express the beauty and power of nature through design.
From this commitment, we design buildings that passively extract energy from the environment around them ‒ natural light and warmth from the sun; natural ventilation; cooling from shade and breezes; and the energy-storing qualities of thermal mass. We serve our clients by working with natural forces to realize their vision, creating spaces that are inviting, comfortable, productive and inspiring.
A versatile architecture firm, we respond to the challenges and opportunities of today. We use our deep expertise in passive design to harness natural ventilation for clean, Covid-free air, to create fire resilient buildings and landscapes, and to make buildings that produce more energy than they use.
We are the original ZNE architects, with over 50 years in the field and winners of the Passive Solar Pioneer Award.
March is Women’s History Month. We are proud that half our team at Indigo is women. The field of architecture has historically underrecognized women even though women practitioners have always made significant contributions to the field, from solar pioneer Mária Telkes to architects Julia Morgan and Zaha Hadid. We are grateful for the contributions of all our women team members to our work here at Indigo. We are taking this opportunity to highlight each of them.