Design Approach:
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?
Our interests lie in using geometry, form, order, color, texture, and material to create fun, playful, and/or unexpected things with a rigorous conceptual foundation. We look to exploit loopholes, drill down to core issues, and challenge the status quo to create architecture which is not only beautiful but restructures the ways we can live - and specifically, ways we can live together.
Firm Bio:
drooopi was founded by Davis Richardson. He is a licensed architect in the states of New York and Texas and holds a Masters of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. He has served as faculty at the Michael Graves College at Kean University, the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and at the Architectural Association Visiting School in London. His work and writing have been featured in the Architect’s Newspaper (where he is a regular contributor and critic), the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Texas Architect magazine, Paprika! by the Yale School of Architecture, PLAT by the Rice School of Architecture, ISSUE by UTSOA, and SXSW, among many others. He gave a TED talk on aesthetic philosophy and ecological thinking in architecture (but it’s kinda cringe). He has also been a visiting juror at the Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY, the University of Southern California, UTSOA, the University of Houston, NJIT, and the AA Visiting School. He has worked as an architect at REX, Dattner, and Overlay Office in New York City, Perkins&Will and THOUGHTBARN in Austin, and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Seattle, among others.
for new project and media inquiries:
daviswrichardson@gmail.com
770.401.0420