Raymond Dwyer, AIA

I have been in the industry since 2012 and have designed many complete commercial buildings of very high complexity and scale. My specialties include hospitality, multi-family residential, education, and public sector.

My designs have featured a focus on sustainable technology, as evidenced by my work on Galileo's Pavilion, which was awarded LEED Platinum, the highest grade from the industry standard for sustainability, environmental design, and green building.

Among the skills I've excelled in during my time as an architect, I have developed a proficiency for navigating local building codes, zoning, permitting, and industry standards, including accessibility standards. These standards ensure that all building users may enjoy the benefits of high design.

The majority of the buildings I've completed in my experience as an architect have been in urban settings, including both new construction and renovations in downtown Chicago and Los Angeles. I have encountered and surmounted the challenges inherent to dense urban planning, including building codes, zoning, and very large buildings on extremely small sites.

I have extensive experience with hospitality buildings in primarily urban settings in downtown Chicago and Los Angeles, both of which included restaurant space integrated into the buildings as well.

A focus of my skills in architectural visualization has been to integrate emerging technologies including virtual reality, having invested in Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, HTC Vive, as well as support for other VR platforms. This provides a new way, more accurate to the experience of being inside a building, to present designs to clients and evaluate our designs very early in the process.

My skills with both AutoCAD and Revit are highly advanced and I have continued to push the limits of the software through automation, scripting, and BIM technology.