A. Christopher Purvis NCARB, LEED assoc. is a Santa Fe, New Mexico based architect with a practice that includes custom homes, commercial offices, restaurants, churches as well as the design and masterplanning of several schools. He is a registered architect in New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Colorado.

"The southwest landscape offers a rich heritage of vernacular forms, from the prehistoric cliff dwellings,and the Anasazi Pueblos, to the historic churches throughout New Mexico. It is a dramatic landscape which requires buildings to respond, both in form and character."