Richard Olcott is a Design Partner at Ennead Architects where over the last four decades he has developed an  award-winning body of work for leading educational, cultural, and civic institutions. His work is grounded in the power of architecture as an interpretive medium, one that can communicate the complexities of contemporary society and create a lasting cultural impact. Richard is interested in how architecture can reinvent itself within the existing urban condition through absorption, addition, and transformation. He creates buildings that are at once expressive of their missions and rooted in their uniquely specific contexts. His work has received numerous awards for design excellence, including National AIA Honor Awards, New York State AIA Awards, New York City AIA Awards, and American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum, as well as local and regional awards.