Richard Davies / building designer, author, professional overthinker
Buildings first. Books later. Now a whole universe. However much turbulence it took to get there, Richard never considered a job finished until the customer was smiling.
Born in Manchester. A bit of Wales. A life in Australia. Roughly thirty years drawing straight lines, followed by the discovery that the interesting things tend to happen outside them.
Extraordinary company
Melvin brings enthusiastic uncertainty. Hammond brings practical scepticism. Their friendship carries them from comic clay figures into heroes who can find a choice where the world says there isn’t one.
The Thumb is the mark of creation: something touched this, something cared. Clone-Richie carries continuity into a person of his own. Neither one gets to own the ending.
Meanwhile, on the floor
Rocky brings the cosmic conversation back to the room. Presence. Loyalty. Appetite. A dog who sees very little reason to dominate the universe when somebody might drop cheese.
The Red Duck provides a small, bright interruption when the plan begins taking itself too seriously.
A place
A door. A chair. Food. Warmth. Useful skills and shared responsibility. Somewhere you don’t have to prove you deserve the chair.
In the Saga, Starhaven gives the Architecture of Enough somewhere to live. It is a place for unfinished people, with the work and disagreements that come with them.
Come inside, mate.
A way of connecting
No single cell carries the whole structure. People make local decisions, share responsibility and stay connected.
Families, communities and organisations all need this: nobody becoming the load-bearing wall of everybody else’s life.
A way of thinking
An answer doesn’t land in the same world in which the question began. People move. Information moves. Giving the answer changes things again.
Some decisions need a structure you can adjust while you’re living in it. Richard’s practical philosophical model begins there.
Try Wave Rider ↗A way of living
A home is for people. Technology should leave room for them. A relationship needs honesty, tenderness, space and repair.
Enough means understanding what the structure is for. There is still room for ambition, curiosity and a wildly unreasonable idea. There is also room to sit down.