The story of ROKU
We are an architecture and design studio based in Vienna and Graz: creating modern, intuitive spaces built around the way people actually live. We bring architecture, interiors, and landscape together under one roof, so every project moves from first sketch to finished space as a single, coherent vision, thoughtful and grounded in its surroundings.
We shape space around human life
The best spaces don't announce themselves. They simply feel right.
ROKU was founded on a single conviction: architecture exists to serve the people who live in it, not the other way around. For over a decade we've shaped homes, workplaces, and public spaces that feel intuitive from the first step inside, where light, flow, and proportion do their work quietly, so life can take the foreground.
We aren't chasing a signature look. We're after something harder to name, the moment a space feels exactly as it should. Considered. Honest. Unmistakably yours.
Four principles. They shape everything before a single line is drawn.
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Answer to the place.
Every site has a climate, a history, a horizon. We design in conversation with it, not against it.
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Let the material speak.
Concrete, timber, stone, light used for what they honestly are, never dressed up as something else.
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People, then plans.
We design outward from the person who'll live there, never inward from a style.
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The quiet decision.
Restraint is a choice. We keep removing until only what matters is left.
In the end, a building is only as good as the people who imagine it.
Behind every ROKU space is a small studio of architects, designers, and makers who argue over millimetres and sweat the details no one will ever consciously notice, because you'll feel all of them.
Meet the team