Spirit
Architecture is personal, the art of making one’s place for the spirit. Our design process emphasizes personal connection and meaning in the everyday human experience.
Buildings belong to history, the land and our soul.
The land is our ally and should be honored.
Space is carved not built.
Architecture at its best disappears.
Design bonds owner, builder and craftspeople.
Leaving space for the unknown reconnects us
with nature.Meaning and beauty are discovered on a design journey with others.
The world is in a modest detail.
Everyone leaves a bit of themselves behind in their work.
The weight of a building is substantial and delicate, creating its own gravity.
Nick, a native West Texan, moved to Austin to establish an architectural practice after a long tenure with Centerbrook Architects, the 1998 AIA Firm of the Year, established by Charles W. Moore in Essex, Connecticut.
Nick’s work includes private residences, office buildings, theaters, arts and academic buildings, university housing, research laboratories, medical facilities, and recreational buildings.
He has received 7 national and 19 regional design awards for a wide range of projects from residential to genetics laboratories. Nick’s residential design, LeanToo earned a 2021 National AIA Housing Award, a 2020 Texas Tech College of Architecture Design Honor Award, a 2019 Texas Society of Architect’s (TxA) Design Award, and a 2017 AIA Austin Design Award. In 1992, Nick had the winning design for the Connecticut State Parks competition for Excellence in State Parks Architecture. His designs, chosen from a field of 52 submissions from New England architects, are being constructed throughout the Connecticut State Parks system.
His work has been published in The New York Times, Dwell, Residential Architect, Texas Architect Magazine, Austin Home, Tribeza, Western Art and Architecture, Remodeling Magazine, and in 2021 RaveOn was featured on Archdaily.com in the USA, China, Brazil and Spanish editions recognized as one of the top 50 projects viewed in that year.
Nick received a Bachelor of Architecture from Texas Tech University. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB).
Nick Deaver, AIA
