Rick Joy

<p>Rick Joy is the founder and principal of Studio Rick Joy.</p><br><p>He is considered an important contributor to the ongoing global discourse on conceptual and sustainable architecture. His work expressed innovation and exactitude in modernism and reflects a unique sense of place.</p><br><p>Honors include receiving the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture 2002 and in 2004 winning a prestigious National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum.</p><br><p>In 2015, Rick was vested into the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows and the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA International College of Fellows.</p><br><p>He was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in a Javits Center event in 2019.</p><br><p>The studio's first monograph, Desert Works, was released by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002 and the second, Studio Joy Works, was released in 2018.</p><br><p>He is also the co-owner of CLL Concept Lighting Lab with his partner Claudia Kappl Joy. CLL provides full-service lighting design for all SRJ projects in addition to outside firms.</p><br><p>Originally from Maine, he studied music and was a classical percussionist and rock/blues drummer until the age of 28 when he moved to Tucson to study Architecture.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>