Acton Architecture specializes in Contemporary and Traditional Architecture Santa Fe New Mexico. Founded in 1990, Acton Architecture has expertise in innovative, sustainable residential and medium-scale commercial projects. Led by Architect, Rad Acton, the firm has extensive experience in custom home design and historic remodel. It has also been in the forefront of medium density residential subdivision and work-live commercial project design. Says Rad Acton I see New Mexico architecture, in it's most broad sense, as an outgrowth of the rich interplay of the region's great building traditions, unique historic fabric, and cultural relationship with the land.
Architecture, in the grandest of contexts, should be timeless, providing the historical 'bones' of culture. It is the expression of an entire milieu of conditions, values and visions of the place and time from which it has emerged. As such, the architect provides critical creative translations illuminating these qualities for his clients. The architect's fiduciary responsibility is, first and foremost, to the client, but it also one that extends to all levels of culture and natural environment. The architect must, therefore, be fully apprised of the dynamic spectrum of contemporary issues and opportunities including emergent energy-conserving and sustainable technologies, historic preservation, human behavior research, and urban settlement trends - and be fully equipped to implement them.