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We believe the interlinked crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and societal inequity are the most serious issues of our time. Duvall Decker Architects is honored to be amongst the first US Architects to Declare our Climate and Biodiversity Emergency Commitment as a basic condition of working for Public Good. Roy Decker, FAIA and Shannon Gathings, Assoc. AIA, is honored to serve on the steering committee for this declaration and group. Click here to learn more about the US Architects Declare.

Roy Decker is honored to serve as the Keynote Speaker for AIA Wisconsin’s 2020 Conference on Architecture, titled the Search for Public Good. “Duvall Decker is an expanded architectural practice in search of public good. During this seminar, Roy Decker, FAIA, will share his firm’s dedication to design excellence, education, craft, and work that is infused with a search for meaning. We speculate hopefully on our culture’s health and growth. We expanded our practice, not to create separate sets of services, but to integrate broader services into one creative studio that is involved in our communities before projects are conceived,… Read more »

We are excited to announce that Roy Decker has been selected as one of the five jurors for the 2020 COTE Top Ten Awards. The COTE Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance. Click here to find out more!

We are excited to announce Anne Marie Decker has been chosen to be on the selection committee for the American Roundtable. The American Roundtable is a new Architectural League initiative, which will bring together on-the-ground perspectives on the condition of American communities and what they need to thrive going forward. To find out more information on the American Roundtable, click here.

AIA – TopicArchitecture December 10,2019 Midtown, a neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, was experiencing plummeting property values and rising crime rates like many other inner-city areas across the United States. Despite investments in community programs and affordable housing, Midtown couldn’t bounce back from the stress and residents continued to move out. It needed something different to revitalize the neighborhood. Duvall Decker, a Jackson, Mississippi, architecture firm, was recruited to work alongside residents and community leaders to develop a master plan. Together, they transformed the struggling area into an example of healthy community revitalization. Duvall Decker is known for strategic grassroots planning… Read more »

Zachary R. Henry, Assoc AIA, has been elected by the members of AIA Mississippi to serve as the 2020 Associate Director. The Associate Director is in charge of fostering the relationship between the state’s students, associate members, and newly licensed emerging professionals. He was re-elected to a second term to serve as the 2021 Associate Director.

Ryan Chan UpKeep Maintenance Management CMMS October 18, 2019 Roy Decker is honored to have been a presenter at the Maintainers III Conference in Washington DC. This follow-up article written by UpKeep Maintenance Management CMMS shares some of his thoughts that he presented at the conference. “We learned so much at the Maintainers III Conference, but one of the most interesting presentations was by Roy Decker of Duvall Decker Architecture. Roy spoke about shifting the practice of architecture to include the entirety of a building’s life, bringing maintenance to meet architecture. His firm is leading the way in changing how architects think… Read more »

Fairmont State University  October 07, 2019 The Fairmont State University Architecture program will present the Mayfield Lecture 2019 featuring Anne Marie Duvall Decker at 7 p.m. on October 22. The event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Engineering Technology Building, followed by the lecture at 7 p.m. in MMA in the library. The lecture topic is “Public Work—Architecture as an Instrument.” The event is presented in partnership with the American Institute of Architects West Virginia and is supported by the West Virginia Foundation for Architecture. The Mayfield Lecture, named for Jeffrey Mayfield, Fairmont… Read more »

Shannon Gathings & William Doran will be representing Duvall Decker at the Association for Community Design’s 2019 People+ Conference in Greenwood, Mississippi, June 27 -29. Shannon Gathings will be participating in a panel discussion entitles “In a Tight Spot: Architects working to achieve excellence in highly constrained settings.” She will present the Mississippi Center for Justice Indianola Office Renovation as a case study of a simple project with many limitations that had a great design impact. William Doran will be giving a presentation entitled “More than a Home: Remaking a Campus for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.” He will… Read more »

Our Studio Design Director, Cody Farris, is honored to speak at Mississippi State University School of Architecture for Tau Sigma Delta’s Friday Forum Lecture Series on April 5. He will discuss his experience and contributions to the work and process of Duvall Decker and talk about his unique perspective on the meaning and consequence of design.

Roy Decker, FAIA, will be representing Duvall Decker Architects at the Civic Innovation Conference at the 2019 Tom Tom Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 9. He will be among other great speakers who will be discussing the future of the industry and a revitalized approach to civic life and community.

Jackson, MS – February 22, 2019– Roy Decker, principal of Duvall Decker Architects, a Jackson, MS architectural firm, been elevated to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. Elevation to the College status is awarded by a jury of peers and recognizes achievements of national significance in advancing the architectural profession. Roy Decker was granted Fellowship in the category of Design, which is granted to architects who have produced distinguished bodies of work through design. The 2019 AIA Jury of Fellows elevated 115 members out of a total membership of more than 94,000. Only 3% of members have… Read more »

Anne Marie Decker, FAIA, will travel back to her home state to speak and present at AIA East Tennessee Design Feed Series on August 28, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Architectural League of New York  March 15, 2018 The League’s annual Emerging Voices program recognizes eight firms with distinct design voices. In March and April, each firm delivers a lecture, then joins prominent architects, critics, and others in the industry for dinner and informal discussion. In the following conversation, the founders of New York City–based Leong Leong and Mississippi–based Duvall Decker Architects offer their thoughts on partnerships and professional responsibility. To read the full conversation, click here.

Roy Decker, FAIA, will present a lecture at the LSU College of Art + Design on January 24, 2018. This lecture is sponsored by our close friends at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. Read more  

Anne Marie Decker, FAIA, to participate in panel discussions in The New School of Design’s Housing Symposium on October 12, 2017. This symposium will assess the transformative potential in the architecture of urban housing in America in a challenging time. In the face of population growth, climate change, a degraded infrastructure, a material culture invested in superficial greenwashing, and inequities in economic opportunity, a panel of prominent architects from various regions across the United States will gather to discuss the central issues of design that make urban housing successful. Read more

Roy Decker, AIA, recently sat down with Enoch Sears on his podcast the Business of Architecture the expanded practice business model of Duvall Decker. The talk is divided into two episodes. Click on the episode below to listen to Roy’s talk about how Duvall Decker works. Episode 145 : Develop Design Maintain Episode 146 : New Architect Business Model