drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
drooopi offers architectural services for projects of all types, scales, and budgets: houses and housing; restaurant, retail, and brand experiences; arts centers; installations; and more. Our approach is grounded in finding dogmatically rational solutions that challenge presumptions, expressed with a refined and playful aesthetic sensibility.
drooopi is technically a cheeky acronym for “Davis Richardson Office of Objects, Projects, and Images,” meaning we design and make drawings of architecture and related things. drooopi as a name implies the reconsideration of preconceived notions: a building that droops is typically considered to be failing. What opportunities are there for defying conventional wisdom that could produce better buildings, more interesting spaces?
drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries:
daviswrichardson@gmail.com
Misbehaving Monument is a pair of cast plaster objects (or is it a single object?) which explore qualities usually deemed undesirable in architecture: slumping, squeezing, dripping, drooping, and leaning. These features are typically viewed negatively due to their proclivity for water intrusion or structural failure in the physical dimension, yet in a digital environment where form doesn’t follow performance, such considerations are moot and new opportunities for architectural aesthetics open up. Instead, the objects are intended to produce a sense of delight or wonder about what possible types of worlds could exist where softness and whimsy were prerequisites.