Rick Joy, FAIA, Int. FRIBA, is an alumnus of the University of Arizona's CAPLA (1990) and is Founder and Principal of Rick Joy Architects, a 27 person architecture, planning and interior design firm established in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona and Co-Founder with Claudia Kappl of the 4 person Concept Lighting Lab design firm in 2010. From the beginning, each of Studio Joy's works have been exhibited and published extensively and have won numerous awards. Joy received the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and in 2004 won the prestigious National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum. This year he will be inducted into the American Academy in NY and periodically serves as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He regularly lectures about the firm's work throughout the world.
RJA has realized architectural works throughout North America with extensive experience with lifestyle based projects from numerous single family residences to an ultra-lux resort and large scale master-plans. The office has several active residential commissions in San Francisco, New York City, Turks and Caicos, Malibu, Long Island. RJA is currently completing the prestigious commission of the new Train Station and Campus Gateway Buildings to Princeton University, a luxury resort hotel with private compounds in Mexico, an apartment building in Mexico City and a new luxury boutique hotel in Austin Texas.
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