There is a language in architecture that everyone understands.

This understanding, which has developed throughout architectural history, implies that architecture responds to the region, the heritage, the culture, the location in which a building is situated, the weather and terrain, as well as considering the functions and uses of that building.

Robertson defines his work by filtering these icons of architecture through the New Beaux Arts idiom.

Historically, the Beaux Arts has been an interpretation of historic styles.

What is unique now is that Robertson is interpreting architectural styles, which had never been interpreted through the Beaux Arts principals and idioms.

This is what defines The New Beaux Arts. This vernacular gives each composition, each structure a spirit of timelessness that is created through a sense of scale and a spirit of “wholeness.”

This spirit of wholeness, the precursor of Modern Architecture, gives the sense that the building is carved from a whole rather than being a whole placed into a void as would be with Modern Architecture.

Modern Architecture is a phenomenon that differs from all of the previous architectural design eras of the Western World.

Modern architectural concepts do not respond to the history, a sense of place or scale, or to the surrounding location, as is evident in all previous architectural styles.

Robertson revives the principals of design preceding the era of Modern Architecture.

The architecture he creates will become part of the heritage of the region in which it is built, thus making it a timeless and enduring work which will itself become an important part of architectural history.