​For nearly 50 years, Ted Hoffman and Michael Facundo have been creating interesting, unusual, and meaningful buildings for a diverse client base that includes housing developers, childcare providers, charter schools, and themselves.   
 
Acquainted with the latest hi-tech, design-automating software, the two long term principals prefer to use enduring, old-fashioned methods: Listening to the client. Immersing themselves into the site. Drawing over and over until their vision unites the client's goals, the building's purpose, and the setting itself.
 
Through their creativity, imagination, and contagious enthusiasm, they infuse their structures with harmony.
 
The firm specializes in multi family affordable housing - almost all funded with subsidies such as HUD, USDA, Florida tax credit programs, and local CDBG funding - and Child Care Centers for low income and carmaker children up and down the SE of the United States.
 
In all, the firm has designed over 25 child care centers throughout the Southeast, including two charter schools (Immokalee and Wimauma) and the  headquarters in Immokalee, which has since been adorned with a 200-foot-long mural by the well-known ceramic muralist Judith Inglese. This was an important part of the original, curved design.
 
Since 2004, the firm has also worked for the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, driving down back roads throughout the Southeast to build rural childcare centers for children of migrant workers. More recently, they have designed affordable housing, including distinctive apartment complexes and a cluster of bright and airy single-family homes, for Rural Neighborhoods, Inc., a Florida City-based nonprofit with properties throughout Florida.
 
The firm has been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for their work. For example, they were published in Architectural Record and Progressive Architecture and won several local and state design awards over the years. In 2008, they were selected to present their designs for rural childcare centers at the annual World Architectural Festival in Barcelona, Spain. But what means the most to them is the long-term relationship they have with clients (some over 40 years) who recognize his work as speaking to the core values and needs of the people and places where he works.
 
“All architecture is local," Mr. Hoffman says. "The hardest thing to do is make a place that is rooted in its time and space. Great buildings, nay, great art in any genre look, sound, and feel like that’s the only way or place they could be"