Prof. Dagmar Richter | UCLA | USA/Los Angeles

The German architect and urban designer Dagmar Richter is a professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles, California. After taking her preliminary diploma at the University of Stuttgart, Dagmar Richter transferred to the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen and graduated from there with a full diploma. Later she attended the architecture class run by Peter Cook at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt a. M.

In 1989 Dagmar Richter established her DR_D Studio in Los Angeles, followed in 2002 by the DR_D Office in Berlin. Dividing her time between Berlin and Los Angeles, with spells at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart, she continues to work on methods of architectural design. Her work has been widely published and her architectural projects have won several international design and architecture competitions. Dagmar Richter has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, the Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Arts and the State Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. She has also been a visiting professor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dagmar Richter has served on the juries of many design competitions in the USA, Norway, Great Britain and Germany, and regularly lectures at schools of architecture all over the world.

Current projects
2007:

6th-8th place in the international competition for the new National Library in Prague/Czech Republic

Publications

"Armed Surfaces: Architecture and Urbanism 5", Black Dog Publishing, London/Great Britain, 2004
"XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter", Princeton Architectural Press, New York/USA, 2001