Davidson Norris is a practicing and teaching architect, whose work has explored the environmental, psychological, health, productivity, aesthetic and experiential impacts of daylight in architecture, urban spaces and artworks for 40 years.
In 1996, he co-founded the architecture firm Carpenter Norris Consulting with sculptor James Carpenter in New York City. Carpenter Norris Consulting (CNC) has advised on daylighting design for museums, courthouses, office buildings, convention centers, laboratories, transit hubs, urban parks, urban plans, and artworks.
For 25 years Norris taught courses in sustainable architecture and daylighting design at Columbia University GSAPP and for 15 years he taught daylighting design in the Masters of Lighting Program at Parsons School of Constructed Environments.
Norris is a 1977 graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.
For a selection of CNC’s projects, see below.
