Partner
Key Projects
Museum of the American Revolution
Duke Medicine Pavilion
Beardsley Park Plan
Richard has been a member of OLIN for more than two decades and has been an integral part of some of the studio’s signature projects, including the plaza at the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building in Cleveland, Ohio, the Brancusi Ensemble in Târgu-Jiu, Romania, Syracuse Connective Corridor in Syracuse, New York, the new Medical Quad at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, the Mount Vernon Place Restoration Master Plan in Baltimore, Maryland, the Olmsted Restoration and Vision Plan for Beardsley Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Yale University’s New Residential Colleges in New Haven, Connecticut. His recent work includes the landscape for the Lutnick Library at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, Shumway Hall of the Mcintire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Stuart Weitzman Plaza at the University of Pennsylvania, the Harrison Garden at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and Singer Hall at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. His current work includes a new entry plaza for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library, the second phase of the restoration and revitalization of Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware, and landscapes for Martin Hall at Swarthmore College.
Richard earned a Diploma in Architecture from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom and then went on to receive a Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He actively serves as an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson University and in 2019 earned the university’s Award for Outstanding Adjunct Teaching. He has made presentations at ASLA conferences, the Scott Arboretum, Lehigh University, and the Community Design Center in Rochester, New York. He has served as an invited juror at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and, as a visiting studio professor, at the Department of Architecture, Design and Engineering of Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico.