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—cultural

  1. Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University
  2. Breaking Character
  3. Australian Performing Arts Center - Confidential
  4. Korean Cultural Project - Confidential

—housing

  1. Enfilade House
  2. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Kinetohaus
  5. Playing House
  6. Williamsburg Multifamily
  7. Windsor Terrace
  8. LowRise LA: Floating Bungalows
  9. 8x1 House
  10. Brentwood Residence
  11. Blackland Village

—retail

  1. NC Bar & Cafe
  2. Kingston Co-op Grocery

—installation

  1. Onda Wall
  2. Phantom Formwork
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. Acrylic Mountains
  5. Paper Trails

—research

  1. All That is Solid Melts Into Air, or Reconsidering the McMansion
  2. Playing House
  3. One House Per Day: Element House(s)
  4. Learning from Lampasas
  5. Micropolitan Texas
  6. Computational Drawings

—media

  1. The Architect’s Newspaper
  2. Ghosts in the Machine
  3. A+D Museum:
    Misbehaving Monument
  4. A+D Museum Redux: Monuments to Maximalism
  5. A+D Museum Future of _Space: Corporate Marketecture
  6. Foam is the Future (ISSUE:Copy)
  7. Architect in the Machine
  8. Digital Baroque
  9. Flattening the Digital and the Phyiscal
  10. TEDxUTAustin, “Hyperobjects: Aesthetic Philosophy for Sustainable Architecture”
  11. Simplicity is Dead

—info

  1. drooopi is an architecture office rethinking where and how we live.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. drooopi is led by Davis Richardson, a licensed architect in New York and Texas.
  5. Contact us for potential projects or media inquiries: daviswrichardson@gmail.com

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Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University


Performing Arts Center (Orchestra, Recital, Theater, Flat Floor Auditorium, + Experimental Media)
Brown University, Providence, RI
100,000sf
2022-2023 (Completed at REX)
Photography by Iwan Baan

A standard-bearer for flexibility in the performing arts, the Lindemann is the new home for the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. A highly complex but automated workhorse, the Lindemann is five buildings in one, as the floors, walls, and ceiling of its main hall transform into different preset configurations, each specifically tuned for orchestras, choirs and recitals, an end-stage theater, flat floor events, and immersive experimental media modes.

A cantilevered, mirrored-glass “clearstory” cuts through the fluted anodized aluminum facade, negotiating a gently sloping grade and bringing radical transparency to the making of the arts at the heart of Brown’s “open curriculum.” “Infinite Composition,” a new spatial LED artwork by Leo Villareal, clads the faces of the vertical vierendeel truss members in the low-slung lobby.

Full project description here.

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