Trattie Davies

Trattie Davies is an Architect and Senior Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. She is founding partner and principal of Davies Toews Architecture, a design firm in New York City. The studio focuses on practice through building with an emphasis on design exploration and scale diversity. Her work with the firm includes residential, commercial, and institutional projects for private, corporate, and nonprofit clients in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Illinois and California. The firm has been recognized as part of the 2018 Architectural Record Design Vanguard and the 2019 Architectural League Emerging Voices. The firm’s work has been published in the New York Times, Metropolis, Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, ArtNews, Architectural Digest, GA Houses, and PLAT Journal. Currently, Davies is developing an interdisciplinary forum, Bread Mountain, which explores material use and ideas.

In 2016, Davies was the recipient of the Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award. In 2017, Davies had the honor of delivering the Inspiring Yale Lecture on Architecture, for the student directed University series.

Prior to forming Davies Toews, Davies was an artist in residence at the Cité International des Arts in Paris and a teaching fellow at the Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts. She holds a B.A. and M.A from Yale.