Dorsky + Yue International (DYI) is an award winning, full service Architecture, Planning, Interior Design and Environmental Graphics Design firm. The firm was founded as William Dorsky Architects in Cleveland in 1959 and opened its South Florida office in 1970. Today, DYI serves its global clientele in residential, commercial retail, hospitality, office and mixed-use developments from those strategic locations.

The root of the firm in residential design started in HUD projects driven by functional and economic construction approaches. Its portfolio has since diversified into various domestic and international markets in community master planning, single family homes, townhouses, rental apartments, condominiums, senior living and hospitality projects in both suburban low-rise communities and dense high-rise urban environment. The practice of the firm in multifaceted residential developments allows its designers to truly understand the commercial viability and functional requirements of different market segments, and the principles in planning and design to deliver successful and vibrant residential developments.

The firm’s practice in Commercial and Mixed-use developments also encompass a full spectrum of products that includes neighborhood shopping centers, big box retail, lifestyle centers, suburban and multilevel urban malls. 

The experience of the firm with a diversified practice in a full spectrum of products equips its teams with invaluable kits of tools and proven abilities to deliver innovative crossbreeding design solutions to meet the commercial and social objectives of its clients in a community context, from the priced and confined setting in Hong Kong to the open desert of Azerbaijan, from the hurricane prone region of the Philippines to the earthquake zone of Turkey, and from the conservative market in Washington D.C. to the trend setting locale of South Beach.

DYI is built with a group of dedicated professionals who are committed to provide quality and responsive services to its clients. The repeated clients of the firm are represented by some of the industry’s most reputable and successful private developers and public institutions. For over five decades, the firm’s commitment to excellence in design and service has been our passion to translate our clients’ vision into meaningful architectural solutions.