About Us

Our Firm

Founded in 1997 by Turan Duda, FAIA and Jeffrey Paine, FAIA, Duda|Paine Architects is known for designing innovative academic and wellness facilities, corporate headquarters, and research facilities that correspond to their surrounding context. Our design studio is in the warehouse district of Durham, North Carolina, while our work appears in cities across the southeast US, Mexico, China, and Japan. Our vision is to transcend the social, cultural, and economic forces of today that can dilute the uniqueness of place.

Our studio is diverse and cross-generational, which allows us to draw on our experience while embracing new and energetic ideas. This combination combines traditional design methods, including physical models and sketching, with digital explorations and 3D modeling to bring our clients’ ideas, and the uniqueness of their campuses and communities, to life. We design contextually sensitive spaces that emerge from partnerships with our clients and are fostered within our dynamic open studio.