Please join the College of Design for the spring 2025 architecture lecture series. 

Roy Decker, FAIA, expands the role of an architect in search of public good. Roy’s dedication to design excellence, education, and craft infuses the firm’s work with meaning. For the past three decades, Roy has led the firm to complete public projects of varying scales and types and to achieve
significant design recognition. Roy is a design and critical thought leader, whether he is participating in an inner-city neighborhood meeting, serving on student reviews across the country, sharing his perspective in lectures and publications, or inspiring an individual in conversation. In all of these
encounters, he exhibits an unwavering commitment to considering the consequences of architectural design work in the lives of others.

Roy holds a Master of Architecture degree from Kent State University. He has been on the faculty of Temple University School of Architecture and Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture. He was selected by the Architectural League of New York to present at the 2017 Emerging Voices lecture series. In 2023, his firm’s work was published in The State of Housing Design by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University where he was asked to speak at the book launch symposium at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2024, The Architect’s Newspaper named Duvall Decker the Best Medium Firm in the Southeast as part of its Best of Practice Awards for the second consecutive year. Roy's firm just released its debut book, Foundations, authored by Anne Marie and Roy, characterizing a list of propositions and foundations that were collected, developed, and tested over 25 years of practice.