Stephanie Davidson grew up in rural Ontario. She earned a degree in fine arts from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, then studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and Dalhousie University in Halifax, where she earned her M.Arch. Davidson received the Power Corporation of Canada award from the Canadian Centre for Architecture upon completing her studies, and has worked for German offices sauerbruch hutton and Gonzalez Haase as well as Montreal’s Provencher Roy. For the past 10 years, Davidson has collaborated with Georg Rafailidis as Davidson Rafailidis. The duo was recognized with the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York in 2018. Davidson co-authored a book on beginning design called “Processes of Creating Space: An Architectural Design Workbook” (Routledge, 2017) with endorsements by Rachel Whiteread, Herman Herzberger and Jacques Rousseau. Davidson has taught at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Daniels School of Architecture at the University of Toronto, and at the Peter Behrens School of Art in Duesseldorf Germany as a 2018-19 International Guest Professor. Davidson is currently an assistant professor of interior design at The Creative School, X-University, Toronto.