designing architectural interventions that connect people.
We create architecture that brings people together to collaboratively design and make buildings, public installations, and exhibitions that embody social and cultural values.
Our approach draws on architecture, oral narratives, ethnography, film, and spatial installation to make the spaces you live, work and play in reflect your aspirations and values. We work closely with individuals, families, community organisations, cultural institutions, and public agencies to create design outcomes that are both technically rigorous and socially grounded.
Selected clients, partners, financial grantors:
New York State Council for the Arts,
Australian Institute of Architects,
American Institute of Architects Center for Architecture (New York),
Architecture League New York,
Library and Archives Canada,
Archives of Ontario,
National Archives of Australia,
Boola Bardip Museum of Western Australia,
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (Brooklyn, NY)
Museum of Toronto,
University of Toronto, Daniels School of Architecture,
OCAD university,
Harvard Kennedy School – Social Innovation Change Initiative,
Harvard Graduate School of Design (Research Grant),
RMIT University School of Architecture,
RMIT University Centre for Urban Research,
Creative Australia,
Scanlon Foundation,
ArchiTeam,
Awards:
Architecture League (New York) – Independent Project Award (2025)
Creative Australia – project award (2025)
Curatorial Program for Research – Finland, Norway & Sweden (2024)
Venice Biennale (Architecture) short listed (2024)
Center for Architecture (New York City) resident (2023)
New School – Good Interventions award (2023)
Harvard Kennedy School Social Innovation Change Initiative fellowship and award (2023)
Victorian Multicultural Excellence award for community innovation (2022)
Designers Australia Award 2022, Interact Category Winner (2022)
ArchiTeam – Innovation and Community Intervention Award (2022)
ENKO Bamako architectural design competition honourable mention (2021)
nyc
28 Perry St,
New York,
NY, 10014,
USA
syd
grd flr suite 1020
97-99 Bathurst St
Sydney,
NSW, 2000
Australia
kd@dhliwayo.com
This office is based on the lands of the Gadigal of the Eora Nation in Warrane-Sydney, and the Munsee Lenape, Wappinger, Carnasie & Matinecock in Manahatta-NYC. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.