BAM was founded in 1998 mostly to make Richmond a better place to live and in the process do architecture well and continue improving ourselves

"The city exists not so much in the residue of its physical presence as in the impressions it leaves in the memory of those who inhabit it. Through fragments of remembrances, the cultural artifact we call the city enters into thought to occupy a realm outside of time. Sustained by the collective memory of its inhabitants, the city acquires permanence - existing in time without measure."

Aldo Rossi