We engage ideas by advancing new models and innovative technologies, guided by the vision of a more sustainable and equitable environment.
This singular vision results from a culture of caring – about material, about form, about community, and about the environment. We go beyond the baseline, pushing the boundaries of common standards by exploring all possible avenues. To create the best potential responses to those design challenges, we remain open to new concepts and are rigorous in our inquiries, considering big ideas while remaining grounded in facts. We draw from our collective expertise and work with other disciplines to strengthen the level of analysis. The result is founded on inclusion; we cultivate collaboration because we know experts exist everywhere in our community, and we want to listen to them.
Dominique Davison, AIA, established Davison Architecture + Urban Design (now DRAW) in 2005 to unite design, technology, research, community engagement, and environmental stewardship.
DRAW staff is known as exceptional listeners and passionate advocates for underserved communities. Our design work and planning efforts forge a more vibrant future for communities and citizens.
Our award-winning practice has been recognized regionally by the Mid-America Regional Council as a leader in sustainability, and DRAW was named “Firm of the Year” by the American Institute of Architects Kansas City Chapter in 2014.

Thought Leadership

Architecture: A Service or an Art Form?

Kansas City Multifamily Architecture: Designing Walkable, Infill Housing

5 Barriers To Infill Housing That Have Little To Do With Design

Defining Positive Impact Design

Second Growth: Affordable Futures with Beetle-Kill Pine CLT

Performance and Architecture

Rediscovering Place: The Enduring Value of Adaptive Reuse

A New New Urbanism

Rediscovering Thermal Delight

Changing times, Changing Floorplans

Love – Is Analog

National Museum for Women in the Arts

100 Things an Architect Should Know

New Guts, Old glory

Perceptions of Power

Mass Timber: Growing Sustainability

Preserving Historic Windows

AIA Big Sibs Conference

Ulm Münster

The Balance between Efficiency and Carbon Footprint

Universal Design, ADA & Preservation

Design As Therapy

AIA Leadership Summit

KCI Connections

Modernization of KC Historic Housing: Colonnade Apartments

The Kansas City, MO Climate Action plan, and what it means for architecture and planning.

AIAKC 2023 President-elect Dominique Davison, AIA

Time To Take Action

Modernizing a KC Classic: The Shirtwaist

Bandbau

Amazing Women in Design History

Unpacking Attainable Housing

Richard Rogers (1933 – 2021)

Affordable Housing Abuse

A Punk Rock Message

Women In The Workforce

Application of Net-Zero Strategies

Sustainable Design: A Unified Process

Incentive for Innovation

Three Essential Steps Toward Carbon Neutrality and Equity

Street Trees

Affordable Housing: Beyond Eviction Moratoriums

Triple Decker Design Challenge

Landscape Architecture + Design Justice

Color Study

Evicted

Fire Station 15

Panelization Normalization
A time for listening, self reflection, and seeing – everyone

At DRAW, the difference is Positive Impact Design.

3-D Printing in the Architectural Profession

COVID-19 and Sustainability

Makerspace + Innovation

Positive Impact Design: Empathy + Activism

Climate Change Blog Series – HOME Competition

Climate Change Blog Series – ACCO Conference

Crossroads Study

Harvesters Food Bank

Affordable Housing Summit

Adaptive Reuse

Prototype Housing

Touring the Tenement Museum Reveals the Ongoing Struggle Americans Have with Immigration

A Smarter, More Connected AEC industry

Dominique Contributes to the Smart City Dialogue on a National Level
