We are a small, civic-minded team. We make quiet, public-interfacing architecture.

Their work is not only immensely intelligent and subtle, with a lack of hectoring urgency in its form, but it is a determined orchestration of space…

Leon van Schaik, Design City Melbourne, 1st ed. (Chichester: Wiley, 2006), 181.

Garner Davis exploit modernity in the detail. They use perforated metals, seamless glass, modest steel frames … Corners and edges are uncomplicated … it is clear, clean expression.

Norman Day, “Reading between the lines,” The Age (Melbourne), May 23, 2005.

Garner Davis is an architecture studio based in Elwood, established by Jill Garner and Lindsay Davis in 1990.

We are precise detailers, focused on modular composition. Our buildings have been acclaimed as sensitive, elegant, useful, durable and adaptable. They are informed by interdisciplinary training in architecture, interior design, service design, structural engineering, art and writing.

We offer complete expertise, from briefing to contract administration. Likewise, our design process is holistic. It prioritises the resolution and integration of each component, incorporating aesthetics, histories, narrative, site, weather, construction, maintenance and universal utility.

Our extended profile is available at request, including a register of drawings, reviews, awards, publications and references.