About Us (As told by the Founders)

Leadership

Architects and Planners must assume a role of leadership in retaining American cities and towns as places in which people can and want to live. They must translate the needs and desires of people into plans and designs which protect the natural environment while increasing the comfort, convenience and security of everyone living together. They must develop these plans and designs realistically in terms of time, money and available resources so that they can actually be built. They must accept responsibility for helping to realize our social and political ideals and for expressing and augmenting the aesthetic values of our society.

Whitley/Whitley LLC. is a firm of architects and planners who accept these responsibilities and who are committed to making our cities and towns better places in which to live.

Whitley/Whitley, LLC. is a firm of architects and planners established in 1963 whose work is focused on urban areas. The firm, consequently, has extensive experience in addressing in planning and design terms the problems associated with redeveloping, building and rehabilitating urban communities and public facilities. Whitley/Whitley, LLC. has provided planning and architectural services to local, state and federal public agencies to community groups and private entities and frequently to public agencies working cooperatively with private entities. The quality of the firm's work is manifested in the range of development successfully undertaken in various cities with their assistance.

The firm has provided a substantial amount of work in Cleveland and the State of Ohio for various city and state public agencies. The firm, however, has provided services for cities and community groups in cities throughout the United States including Saint Louis, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Gary, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Saginaw, Michigan; Buffalo, New York; Rochester, New York; New York City, Orlando, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Reading, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C. and San Diego, California.

Whitley/Whitley LLC., has been responsible for designing a wide range of type and scale of public facilities including offices, schools, jails, vehicle maintenance and storage facilities, museums, libraries, post offices and mass transit facilities and has provided design services for buildings representing a range of construction costs. The design capabilities of the firm have been recognized by numerous professional awards and commendations including the "PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AWARD", considered the "Oscar" of the profession. In addition to the professional recognition that the firm has received for its design excellence, the firm is Iauded by its prior clients for its realism with respect to financial feasibility considerations.