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PAUL QUINN DAVIS
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President
January 2008 until present (17 years 10 months) - Los Angeles/Minneapolis
Mr. Davis is a founding partner of DRDS, a design oriented architectural practice working on large scale projects internationally. His firm has been an integral part of many award winning projects across the United States, Asia and the Middle East. The firm places emphasis on innovative and high-value design solutions. Expertise includes corporate, commercial, mixed-use, residential, academic, research, healthcare, civic, sports, exhibition and master planning. DRDS has realized more than 25 built works achieving individually tailored designs for International clients. Successful collaborations with domestic and foreign teams have led to award winning competitions and commissioned work internationally. Paul's work has been featured in Architecture, Architectural Record, Business Week Magazine, L’ARCA, MARK Magazine, World Architecture, Interior Design Magazine and the New York Times. He is also a recipient of Interior Design Magazine’s “Future Furniture Award”. He has received 2 American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum and 11 AIA Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects for designs including NHN - Green Factory, Hamyang Four Season’s Eco Resort, Paul Brown Stadium, Hiroshima Ballpark and Hwaseong Stadium + Sports Complex. He also received Progressive Architecture Magazine’s Young Architect Award, a national citation for achievement in architecture.
DANNY CARPER
Design Principal
August 2023 until present (2 years 4 months) - Los Angeles
Danny is currently the Design Principal at DRDS. Danny’s design philosophy pursues a sense of wonder, melding precision with poetic possibility. He envisions every project—whether a compact housing unit or a sweeping civic landmark—as a chance to spark connection, reframe context, and transform everyday moments into something extraordinary. He approaches architecture as an ever-evolving dialogue between technology and nature, where precision meets spontaneity. Danny’s works do not impose; they invite discovery. In their balance of rigor and warmth, his designs suggest a world shaped not by spectacle, but by thoughtful invention and enduring wonder. Danny’s work has been featured in the A’ Design Awards, Evolo, Archinect, Lisa Iwamoto’s Digital Fabrications, and Heather Roberge’s Fabricating Plasticity in Aluminum.
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