Who We Are For

Davidov Architects is a Melbourne-based residential architecture and interiors studio working across Victoria. We design new homes, renovations and extensions, heritage-sensitive upgrades, rural homes, and selected multi-residential projects for private clients and boutique developers.

Our work begins with a simple premise: a home is not an image, it is a lived sequence. We design architecture where atmosphere is the primary outcome. Atmosphere is shaped deliberately through proportion, thresholds, framed viewlines, borrowed light, shadow, and the way spaces compress and release as you move through them.

Our projects are often described as contemporary, modern, or minimal. We treat these terms as shorthand. What matters to us is spatial clarity, material integrity, and longevity, so a home feels calm and resolved at completion and becomes more familiar, more convincing, and more generous over time.

We work well with clients who care about how a home feels to inhabit, not only how it reads from the street. Some arrive with strong references and construction experience. Others are working with an architect for the first time. Design literacy is not required. What matters is openness to a guided process, patience for refinement, and a long view.

Our work commonly spans young couples and families shaping long-term homes, empty nesters and retirees consolidating into a final residence, and boutique developers, often with an intention to live in the project themselves. Many clients come to us through referral or by encountering a completed project. Repeat clients are common, built on trust and shared ambition. We work across metropolitan, regional, and rural Victoria.

The relationship is collaborative. Clients make the final decisions, with our guidance. We explain the reasoning behind design decisions, particularly when multiple considerations are being balanced. Early in our process we often use high-level 3D visualisation to clarify scale, materiality, light, and spatial connection, so decisions feel grounded and calm. Some clients enjoy understanding the thinking behind each move. Others simply want confidence in the direction and the outcome. We support both.

Davidov Architects may not be the right fit if lowest cost is the primary driver, if the brief prioritises trend or visual complexity over longevity, or if immediate certainty is required before ideas can be tested and refined. We work efficiently and respect time, but we also protect the integrity of the design, because integrity is what allows a home to feel settled, coherent, and enduring.

If you’d like to read more about how we think, our Editorial archive explores atmosphere, light, time, and lived experience in greater depth.