Richard Garfield
Richard F. Garfield has been practicing architecture for 48 years. Beginning in Boston, he worked for Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, and The Architects and Engineers for Boston City Hall. Moving to Philadelphia, he earned his professional degrees and worked Wright, Andrade, planners and for Louis I. Kahn. For several years he was Field Representative for Louis Kahn’s work in Dacca, (then) East Pakistan and in Kathmandu, Nepal. During this time he also worked with the Ford Foundation, The U.S. Government, and the Ministries of Education and Health of the Kingdom of Nepal. In 1975, he moved to Oregon and became Assistant Head for the Architecture Department of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. After three years in Eugene, he joined Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM) as Director of Architecture to work on projects as varied as Mehrbad Airport in Teheran and the Tektronix campus in Forest Grove, Oregon. When DMJM closed its Portland office in 1983, he opened a firm with Thomas Hacker - Garfield, Hacker Architects (GHA). Ten years later, having completed buildings at Oregon Health Sciences University and museum projects in Oregon, Montana, Arizona and California, he left GHA and soon after joined RIGGA , a group working out of a studio/shop making sculpture, public art, installations and architecture. Currently Richard works with rhiza A+D, a company engaged in architecture, sculpture, installation and theatrical works.