Richard has been working in the field of Green Architecture, Urban Design & Digital Media for 20+ years. An early designer in the Sustainable Architecture & Urban Design movement, he created a new major at UCLA in 1993 that incorporated the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, Civil & Geological Engineering, Geography, & the school of Planning & Management. The New Major, Environmental Urban Design was created to help define a framework in which the environment, buildings and urban spaces, could be analyzed & designed with the goal of preserving and promoting the environment & the human element in a sustainable symbiotic way. Richard’s work has included Civil Engineering Design, Landscape Architecture, Geological Engineering, Architecture, & Green Urbanism. He has worked on public projects ranging from the UCLA Botanical Garden, the Chelsea waterside park & west side highway & the redesign of the Chelsea Car Wash along the High Line in Manhattan, home designs in New York City, the high desert of California, New Mexico, Sweden, Madrid, & Connecticut, & Green community designs in the greater Los Angeles area. Richard has a BA in Environmental Urban Design from UCLA, a Master’s of Architecture from both the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and the New Jersey School of Architecture.