Richard Krauss
Richard Krauss is a principal of Arrowstreet Inc., a large Boston architecture and planning firm (of which he was a founder shortly after earning his BA from Harvard College and design degree from MIT).
His early career was spent half on projects (mostly residential and educational), half on improving practice – by studying the design process in pioneering the use of computers (e.g., authoring designers specifications for the British government’s CAD system) and developing citizen participation techniques (e.g., the Planning Aid Kit, adopted by federal agencies such as NIMH for designing community mental health centers). His work has mainly been large scale planning involving user control, market research, design guidelines, and systematic feed back – first for many state systems for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, then for the visitor areas of all US national parks, then for the community functions on all US Air Force and Marine Corps bases. His most recent projects have included work in China, where he adapted user participation processes to aid local residents develop and control the modernization of their traditional settlements in a Northern Chinese province.
Following his Fellowship, Richard spent another decade at the GSD as an associate professor in the Urban Design and Planning Program (acting as its director in his final year). He has also headed the LF Alumni Council for two terms, including helping to establish its Grant Program.