Richard Stampton creates architecture shaped by stillness, grounded in context, and designed to endure. Established in 2009, his practice spans Australia and the United States, approaching each project as an opportunity to weave new connections between past and present, private and public, enclosure and openness.

His work is rooted in the specificity of place, drawing on light, landscape, history, and human use to create spaces that feel quietly inevitable and subtly familiar. Each undertaking is in distinct response to how we live, what lasts, and what the built environment can offer when it’s thoughtfully integrated with its surroundings.

Across contexts and scales, Richard's portfolio ranges from intimate residential renovations to immersive educational centres and significant cultural collaborations; a practice sustained by relationships with site, client, and memory. Favouring evolution over spectacle, his buildings are underpinned by an elemental clarity - architecture that reveals itself gradually, like a landscape known through changing light. This intentional restraint is supported by an attention to the nuances of daily life: the calibration of proportion and orientation, the play of sun and shadow, the choreography of rooms, the materiality of surfaces touched daily over decades.

This approach has been influenced by Richard's interdisciplinary background spanning architecture, law, and project management across multiple countries - lending an agility between the technical and the cultural, between precision and tradition. His early career included work at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris and on large-scale civic projects in London, Chicago, New York, and the Middle East, roles that continue to inform both his collaborative instinct and his expansive view of design.

Beyond architecture, his perspective is informed by years of surfing and long-distance hiking - disciplines of movement and stillness, where he has learned to read the quiet patterns of terrain, tide, weather, and time. These experiences shape his sensitivity to how sunlight moves through space, how breezes gather and shift, where warmth settles, shade is needed, and shelter belongs. This attunement carries into each environment he designs for, with each composed to deepen the experience of living.