Mr. Richard Aeck is a Principal Building Envelope Consultant and is a Registered Architect for the state of New York, with extensive glazing and cladding system design experience for adaptive re-use, cultural, government, higher education, infrastructure, preservation, and restoration projects.  Mr. Aeck has 20 years of visual plus performance mockup design and testing experience as well as 5 years of building envelope design and consulting experience.

Highlights include working abroad in Italy and France to develop, model, and detail the Harvard Art Museum “Light Machine” sloped façades at RPBW in Genoa and many complex bridges and structural façades at RFR in Paris.  Since returning to the U.S., Mr. Aeck has enjoyed a MIT Building Technology research fellowship and served as Project Envelope Design Specialist or Consultant on notable projects including the USDOT Volpe “Transportation Systems Center” in Cambridge, the Columbia “University Forum” in New York, the LIRR “East End Gateway” in New York, the 529 Broadway “Nike Store” in New York, and the “Montgomery County Courthouse” in Philadelphia.

• Building Science, M.S.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017)

• Architecture, M.A.: Georgia Institute of Technology (2007)

• Licensed Professional Architect: New York (2022)

• Other Degrees/Interests/Specializations: CNC Fabrication; Metalcasting; Drawing/Modeling for Fabrication

• Organizations: American Institute of Architects (AIA); Intl. Institute of Building Envelope Consultants (IIBEC)

• Certifications: Registered Architect (NY #044644); Suspended Scaffold (#TSC22-106676); Supported Scaffold (##SS22-2183); UFGS/PBS-P100 Training

• Software: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office 365, Grasshopper, SketchUp, Asgvis V-ray, Therm ∕ Window∕Optics, Diva, Karamba, XiLog Plus, MasterCAM, Maxwell Render, Enscape

• Awards: MIT SA+P Fellowship, ENR Global Merit Award (Team); Tekla BIM Award (Team); V.N. Walker Visual Art Award; Eagle Scout Award

• “Investigating Curtain Wall Failures”, Building Design + Construction Aeck, Rudisill, Johnson, et al. (2024)

• “High-performance Bending-active Strip Construction”, MIT Building Technology, 2017 (Aeck, Thesis)

• “Digital Fabrications”, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 (Iwamoto, Lisa: both Georgia Tech installations)

• “Cannoli Framing & Turnstijl Houses” VDM Verlag: 2007 (Aeck, Thesis, ISBN-10: 3639078470)

• “A Change of State”, Dwell Magazine, 2007 (Staff: February, Vol.7, #2, page 42)

• “A Sculptural Structure in Polycarbonate”, New York Times, 2006 (Louie: Sept. 28, Arts & Leisure cover)