Some architects spend their entire careers searching for their own styles.
Or they adopt a particular design approach and decide to improve upon it. And others such as Eric Anderson of Boca Raton intentionally create projects that aren't easily identified. Because the dynamics are different on each project, the design will be different. When Anderson was a student at the University of Miami's School of Architecture in the mid-1980s, he was most influenced by Alvar Henrik Aalto, the father of modern Scandinavian architecture. Anderson said his own design style is similar to Aalto's sensitive to nature.