The Urban Designer

Urban Design Associates Vision

Urban Design Associates (UDA) are architects who design cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Its goal is to create beautiful places with lasting value for the communities they serve. For UDA, design is the creative focus of our process - a participatory process in which they bring together citizens, economists, engineers, architects, developers, policy makers, government officials, and builders to construct humane and appropriate visions for the future.

Additionally, UDA designs build on the unique character and positive qualities inherited by each place in which they work. By working at many scales, they find ways of coordinating the design of individual buildings, the public spaces, the neighborhoods, towns, cities, and the regional culture into a viable and vital urban tapestry.

See below some of the latest awards earned by UDA for its world class urban designs:

Congress for the New Urbanism
2007 Charter Award
Louisiana Speaks: Pattern Book
Louisiana

Traditional Building
Palladio Award - 2006, Residential Special Award
A Pattern Book for Norfolk Neighborhoods
Norfolk, Virginia

Urban Land Institute
2004 Award of Excellence
WaterColor
Seagrove Beach, Florida