
Florian Holzherr
Davidson Rafailidis
Davidson Rafailidis
Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis have collaborated as Davidson
Rafailidis since 2008.
Davidson (*1977, London, Ontario, Canada) grew up in rural Ontario. She earned a degree in fine arts fromMount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, then studiedarchitecture at London’s ArchitecturalAssociation and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, where she earned her M.Arch.
Rafailidis (*1972, Furstenfeldbruck, Germany)holds degrees from the University ofApplied Sciences in Munich and the Architectural Association in London, UK.
Davidson Rafailidis have received awards such as the Emerging Voices Award 2018 by theArchitectural League of New York, Azure’s AZ Award of Design Excellence2018, Best of Canada Design Award (2015, 2016 and 2018), Blueprint
magazine award 2016 and Architizer A+ award 2016, among others.
Davidson Rafailidis co-authored the book “Processes of Creating Space:
An Architectural Design Workbook” (Routledge, 2017) with endorsements by
Herman Hertzberger, Jacques Rousseau and Rachel Whiteread.
For the past several years, both Davidson and Rafailidis have taught at
various architecture schools including the RWTH Aachen (Germany),
Academy of Art San Francisco (USA), the University of Toronto (Canada), and most recently, they held the International GuestProfessorship at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Dusseldorf,Germany (2018-19). Rafailidis is Associate Professor in architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) and Davidson is Assistant Professor at Ryerson School of Interior Design in Toronto(Canada).