Profile

Crawford Practice is a multidisciplinary design studio founded by architect Robbie Crawford. The work of the Brooklyn-based practice encompasses residences, cultural spaces, and landscapes, and balances practicality and drama in each commission. We believe that spaces must nourish a person both emotionally and physically—and that the best spaces merge memory and fantasy, nature and culture.

To achieve that deep resonance, we approach every project as a conversation that spans big ideas and small details. Our clients often arrive at Crawford Practice with a firm grasp of a spatial problem that requires solving. In response, we engage in a process of iterative questioning to reveal the underpinnings of that problem. Articulating a client’s motivations, proclivities, and intentions solidifies the parameters of our design, and it is at this point we introduce contractors, artisans, and other partners into the conversation. Insisting upon design as a social, collaborative process, we invite every stakeholder to lend their full expertise to the design's development and execution.

Robbie Crawford received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California while working with Griffin Enright Architects as an architectural model maker. Upon graduating in 2002, he moved to Brooklyn where he worked as a designer with Standard Architects. Beginning in 2008, Crawford assisted his wife Tara Donovan and her studio team as she installed her first major museum survey at Boston ICA, Cincinnati CAC, Des Moines Art Center, and MCA San Diego. While continuing to assist Donovan’s studio operations as an architectural consultant, Crawford began taking on architecture and design projects of his own, and he officially launched Crawford Practice in 2014.