about

Ryan Debski is an architect and designer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work is characterized by his use of essential forms that are imbued with a sense of history and his phenomenological approach to architecture that seeks to enhance one’s existentialist, bodily engagement with place. He was first inspired to become an architect after he travelled to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater when he was fourteen. He graduated cum laude from Drexel University in 2015 with a professional Bachelor's of Architecture Degree. In the spring of the same year, Ryan was awarded the Pearson Prize for the best architectural thesis project for the academic year. He has gone on to attend the prestigious Immersion Masterclass, a one week studio on contextually responsive design, taught by internationally renowned architects Rick Joy, Peter Stutchbury (Winner of the 2015 Australian Gold Medal for Architecture), and Richard Leplastrier. Ryan's design philosophy revolves around the belief that architecture should bring man and nature together and that architecture should be conceptualized as a vessel for haptic and sensory experience. He is guided by the principle that architecture should not alter a site, so much as it should enhance one's experience of it.