Waggonner & Ball

Waggonner & Ball is a New Orleans-based architecture and environment firm, located where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. We see architecture as a way of understanding the world. Since 1970, Waggonner & Ball and its predecessor firm have lived and worked in New Orleans - a deeply rooted place with a rich history, but also a port city with a constant exchange of materials and culture. From this perspective, we see New Orleans - a challenging environment on the front line of climate change where a holistic approach to design is essential - as both our home and our point of departure. Our work spans a range of scales, from buildings to landscapes, from cities to watersheds. Our work also spans a range of places, from New Orleans to Norfolk, from Beijing to Jakarta. No matter where we work, we draw on the local and particular while engaging our global context of a changing climate, precarious economic conditions, and powerful new technologies. We work hard to align cut...