DEBORAH RICHMOND

Deborah Richmond is an experienced creative professional and award-winning architect. An innovator with strong team management and mentoring skills, she has a proven track record of design excellence and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Her approach is client-focused, design-driven and project-centered.

In addition to architectural practice, Deborah is a published writer and design researcher, serving frequently on public panels, publishing essays and providing design research and strategic consulting to professional organizations and nonprofits. Her wide-ranging interests belie a curious spirit and varied creative production, from buildings, to photos, to installation and writing.

Deborah's projects have been published in the New York Times, Praxis, Dwell, Icon, Wallpaper, GA Houses, and AMC/Le Moniteur. She has lectured in China, France and the U.S. and exhibited at the A+D Museum, IIT, Ogden Museum, the Beijing Biennale and the Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. She was included in Wallpaper Magazine's top 100 emerging architects. Her photography and installations have been included in group shows in Los Angeles.

Prior to joining Bell Design Group, she led the design of mixed-use projects at marquee firms, most recently working on a landmark film studio campus integrated into a dense urban context. She has worked previously for The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, a Pritzker-Prize winning practice, and on design collaborations with French architect Jean Nouvel on projects in Los Angeles.

She has taught critical theory at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and design studios at the University of Southern California, SCI-Arc, UCLA and Woodbury.  In addition to the design studio, she taught materials and methods and systems integration courses, integrating her real-life practice experience within the academic context.

Working in the nonprofit sector, Deborah has helped organizations critically assess mission, message and medium, using community engagement, design strategy and research to create new concepts, such strengths-based narratives in the foster care community and the inclusion of environmental art in the sustainable building community.