Sam Davis Architecture
48 Oakvale Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
510 595 9510
www.sdavisarchitecture.com



Sam Davis Architecture (formerly Davis & Joyce Architects) is a Berkeley, California firm with thirty-five years of housing experience. Working with institutions, market-rate and non-profit developers, and service providers, Sam Davis Architecture has designed housing for a wide range of people, many with special needs. The firm’s projects include those for families, students, seniors, young people with HIV/AIDs, homeless youth, and homeless adults.

The firm has won many design awards and competitions and the work has been published in the United States, Great Britain, and Japan.


  Sam Davis is the interim Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, and a Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley where he has been on the faculty since 1971. He served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1993 to 1996 and as Associate Dean of the College of Environmental Design from 1998 to 2002. He has written three books on housing, The Form of Housing, The Architecture of Affordable Housing, and Designing for the Homeless: Architecture that Works. This latest book was supported by a Humanities Research Fellowship from the University of California and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Sam Davis is a graduate of the schools of architecture at UC Berkeley and Yale. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1985.



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