Jones Sonter searches for excellence in architecture and urban design that is grounded in a comprehensive understanding of human needs and aspirations within a specific context of environmental conditions and requirements. Because the firm has found that each project has a solution that is a unique expression of its time and place, it does not align work with stylistic trends, preferring instead to let the design reflect its own particular origin and process.

With every project the firm is committed to a design outcome that is comprehensively informed by the client brief, guided by a strong central idea, conditioned by the demands of the program and budget, shaped by the character of the site and logic of construction, and sustained by an integrated approach to energy and the environment.