A+ALA was founded in 1986 as a stand-alone, regionally based office of the Anshen+Allen organization. In this time, the office has seen the trasference of leadership from its original founding Principals, to Peter Stazicher with Tom Chessum, Sarah Dennison, Scott Keley, Tennis McFadden, Anthony Moretti, Stephen Yundt and Paul Zajfen. This arrangement supports the office´s ambition to be a center for design and brings together a cross-generational group of enthusiastic, committed architects bound by a common creed