‘We start with the ground. The ground already has form… Why not begin to give [in] at once by accepting that?

Why not give by accepting the gifts of nature?… Is the ground sunny or the shaded slope of some hill, high or low, bare or wooded, triangular or square?

Has the site features, trees, rocks, stream, or a visible trend of some kind? Has it some fault or special virtue, or several?

In any and every case the character of the site is the beginning of the building that aspires to architecture.’

- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1953

Metz believe that Architecture is about responding to the characteristics of the site and understanding the needs of the client, history, context, sustainability and economics. With Restoration an intervention might in one circumstance be facsimile, in another contrasting, in both cases appropriate. Iconic should have its place, but not a norm.

Metz have not adopted a ‘house style’, believing that the constraints and opportunities given on any particular site will engender the buildings own unique response in form, function and aesthetic.