"It has long been an article of faith that architecture, like politics, is local, and that architects traditionally have grown their practices from within a community indigenous to a place, a genius loci. Mark Cavagnero is.an architect with work of national stature who has grown his practice out of San Francisco and the Bay Area since he established his eponymous firm in 1993. He designs works to be building blocks for the city, not freestanding statements. He draws on the values of the community for which his work is appreciated. He is an architect with honor at home." (pg. 10)* This book exhibits twenty years of buildings that steadfastly retain our core values: volume and light, site and community, place and time.

(pg. 28)* Cavagnero's portfolio of buildings across types, scales, and three decades of practice is remarkably consistent because he bases design on principles he spent years cultivating--interlocking volumes, a limited palette of wood and concrete, lightness, authenticity, presence, and multiple scales designed to read at varying distances. (pg. 17).