Richard Riveire, AIA
Principal

Education

• Master of Architecture, Texas A&M University
• Bachelor of Environmental Design,
  Texas A&M University

Registration

• Registered Architect in California

Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Architects
• CoreNet Global
• MasterSpec Interior Review Committee,
  AIA Professional Systems

Honors

• Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, Outstanding Alumnus Award

Selected Awards and Publications

• AIA/LA Presidental Honoree, Building Team of the Year, 2007, California Endowment
• Interior Design Giants, Interior Design,
  January 2006
• Solutia Doc Award, QAD Software, 2005
• Gold APEX Design Award, Abacus Casegoods, Design Journal, 2004
• Good Design Award, Abacus Casegoods, The Chicago Atheneaum, 2004
• Best Large Office Award, Korea Development Bank, Contract Magazine, 2003
• Best Large Office Award, BMC Software, Inc., Contract Magazine, 2002
• Merit Award, AIA - Houston, BMC Software, Inc. Headquarters, 2002
• Architecture Firm of the Year (DMJM), Los Angeles Business Journal, 2000 and 1999
• Merit Award, DuPont Antron Design Award, Steelcase Wood Furniture Showroom, 2000
• Corporate Interiors No. 3, by Stanley Abercrombie, 2000 (cover)
• Award for Creative Excellence,
  Steelcase Wood Furniture Showroom,
  NeoCon 1999
• Legacy Award, BMC Software, Inc.,
  Legacy Awards Advisory Board, 1999
• Award for Creative Excellence,
  Bernhardt Showroom, NeoCon, 1998
• Gold Award, Halcon Showroom,
  Best of NeoCon, 1998
• Honor Award, The Capital Group Companies, Inc., AIA, Los Angeles Chapter, 1997
  

Richard Riveire is a design professional with more than 20 years experience shaping the modern workplace. With long-term partner Lauren Rottet, FAIA, he has built Rottet Studio into one of the most respected interior architecture firms in the world. The firm now boasts more than 30 million square feet of project experience with best of class professionals in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Scottsdale and Shanghai.

As Principal, Mr. Riveire leads projects with a deep understanding of the process of creating workplace environments that visually reflect the culture of the client. Balancing aesthetic and spatial considerations with marketplace realities and a concern for the quality of the workplace, Rottet Studio has built a reputation for designs that are successful both in responding to client requirements and in setting new standards in highly competitive business environments.

Mr. Riveire has played a key role in expanding Rottet Studio’s design reach to Asia. He has cultivated relationships with respected clients throughout the Pacific Rim with prestigious projects completed in Hong Kong, South Korea, the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, and Singapore. Mr. Riveire’s international experience includes the 100,000 m2 headquarters for Korea Development Bank in Seoul, The Bank of China’s Shanghai Headquarters, and offices for Pontiac Land developers in Singapore.

Mr. Riveire has extended his unique vision to the design of award-winning furntiure and products for several respected manufacturers. In addition to the popular Attache’ series of casegoods for Halcon, on which he teamed with Lauren Rottet, Mr. Riveire’s product collections include the Lineal seating series for Halcon, Manele and Sterling lounge seating and table collections for Martin Brattrud, and the elegant Tableau casegoods collection for Steelcase Wood Furniture.

Mr. Riveire’s professional experience includes work with 3D/International in Houston and with both the Houston and Los Angeles offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). While at SOM, Riveire served as Senior Designer on prestigious projects such as the widely published Transamerica Criterion, Inc. headquarters in Houston, law offices of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles - Interior Design magazine’s Project of the Year, the City Club on Bunker Hill, and the flagship branch of First Interstate Bank in First Interstate World Center. In 1990, Riveire joined Keating Mann Jernigan Rottet as a founding principal. The firm merged with Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (DMJM) in 1994. Then, in 2008, Riveire and Rottet joined forces with DMJM Rottet colleague, Kelie Mayfield, IIDA, and long-time SOM design executive, David Davis, AIA, to form the privately-held interior architecture and design practice, Rottet Studio.

Representative Project Experience

• AON Risk Services Corporate Offices,
  72,400 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• BMC Software, Inc. Headquarters Campus,
  230,000 sq. ft. : Houston, TX
• Baker & McKenzie Law Offices,
  117,200 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Bank of China Shanghai Executive Headquarters,
  7,222 M2 : Shanghai
• Broadcom Headquarters Campus,
  680,000 sq. ft. : Irvine, CA
• California Endowment Headquarters,
  127,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Capital Group Companies, Inc. Headquarters,
  222,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• City Club of Bunker Hill,
  11,500 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• City Club of Bunker Hill,
  11,500 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Cushman & Wakefield Westside Offices,
  10,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Deloitte & Touche Offices,
  342,900 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Deloitte & Touche Offices,
  342,900 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Fiduciary Trust Offices,
  21,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• First Interstate Bank Flagship Branch,
  10,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• First National Bank of Chicago Regional Offices
  21,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Foothill Transit Administrative Headquarters
  22,000 sq. ft. : West Covina, CA
• Fulbright & Jaworski Law Offices,
  63,104 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• GE Asia Headquarters,
  68,000 m2 : Shanghai, PRC
• Halcon Contract Showroom,
  3,000 sq. ft. : Chicago, IL
• Hewlett Packard Company
  Regional Sales & Business Center,
  550,000 sq. ft. : Atlanta, GA
• Hong Kong Government Center, Tamar Project,
  1,000,000 sq. ft. : Hong Kong
• International Lease Finance Corporation Headquarters,
  127,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Jones Day Reavis & Pogue Law Offices,
  22,250 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Korea Development Bank Headquarters,
  98,000 M2 : Seoul, Korea
• Latham & Watkins Headquarters,
  204,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles: CA
• Latham & Watkins National Administrative Offices,
  35,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Major manufacturer design studio,
  180,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Menara Bakrie,
  100,000 M2 : Jakarta, Indonesia
• McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen Law Offices,
  51,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Munger Tolles & Olson Law Offices
  151,113 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Pontiac Land Private Limited,
  2,500 M2 : Singapore
• Preferred Bank,
  21,000 sq. fq. : Los Angeles, CA
• QAD Software Headquarters,
  85,000 sq. ft. : Carpenteria, CA
• RAND Headquarters,
  309,000 sq. ft. : Santa Monica, CA
• Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and Spa, 650 keys : Hollywood, CA
• The Screen Actors Guild Headquarters,
  98,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Solana Marriott Hotel,
  250,000 sq. ft. : Westlake, TX
• Steelcase Wood Showroom,
  15,500 sq. ft. : New York, NY
• Thelen Reid & Priest Law Offices,
  78,000 sq. ft. : Los Angeles, CA
• Tokyo Electron America, Inc.,
  100,000 sq. ft. : Austin, TX
• TransAmerica Criterion Executive Offices,
  80,000 sq. ft. : Houston, TX
• UNOCAL Executive Headquarters,
  82,000 sq. ft. : El Segundo, CA
• U.S. Trust Corporate Offices,
  12,000 sq. ft. : Beverly Hills, CA
• Walt Disney Feature Animation Offices and Production Facilities,
  225,000 sq. ft. : Burbank, CA
• Walt Disney Imagineering Animation Research Library Renovation,
  50,000 sq. ft. : Glendale, CA
• Walt Disney Feature Animation Offices and Production Facilities,
  13,000 M2 : Paris, France
• Walt Disney Theatrical Productions Offices,
  28,700 sq. ft. : New York, NY