At the heart of the relationship between Client and Architect is the willingness of both to trust, to listen, and to explore the wonderful array of ideas each project generates.
Our 'Design Charettes' sessions deal with all aspects of design, including the functional relationships of the spaces within the building, all building systems, movement on the site, the image of the building itself, and the relationship of the project in the community. All ideas are given consideration in the process distilling the overall design concept.
Manasc Isaac Architects has successfully used this Design Charettes process to involve communities in the creation of projects. An important upshot of our approach is that more stakeholders can invest their energy in a positive and meaningful way.
The end result is that we build consensus with a wider range of participants sooner, which makes our clients very pleased with the results.
 The old-fashioned notion of an individual with a dream of perfection is being replaced by distributed problem-solving and team-based multi-disciplinary practice. The reality for advanced design today is dominated by three ideas: distributed, plural, collaborative. It is no longer about one designer, one client, one solution, one place. The effect is to imagine a future for design that is both more modest and more ambitious. More modest in that we take our place in the Renaissance Team, and more ambitious in that we take our place in society, willing to implicate ourselves in the consequences of our imagination. 
- Bruce Mau - Massive Change - 2005
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