History
The firm was founded by Archibald Rogers in his grandmother’s basement in Annapolis. Francis Taliaferro joined shortly afterwards. In 1949, the pair added Charles Lamb, whose design for the Anne Arundel County Girl Scouts Teepee Lodge gained the firm national attention by winning an award from the American Institute of Architects. The firm’s reputation grew when, in 1954, internationally renowned architect Pietro Belluschi selected Rogers, Taliaferro and Lamb as his associate architect for the design of the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore. The project received an AIA Award of Merit and, in 1986, a special 25-Year Award from the AIA's Baltimore Chapter. The addition of urban design specialist George Kostritsky in 1961 completed the foursome, and the “Rogers, Taliaferro, Kostritsky and Lamb” name was condensed to “RTKL.” In that same year RTKL was commissioned to design the public spaces for the Charles Center, which contributed to Baltimore’s urban renewal movement. Largely because of the success of this involvement, the firm was commissioned to develop downtown plans for Cincinnati, Hartford, and Charlotte, North Carolina, among other US cities.
The firm continued to expand in the next decades, opening offices across the company and overseas. In 2000, RTKL acquired Dallas-based FDS International, a health practice ranked among the top ten in the country. Ten years later the firm added Beijing-based AHS International, a practice that specialized in healthcare and medical-facility architecture.
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