Background
Dick Clark III, was educated at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has practiced architecture in Boston, Knoxville, Managua, Aspen, Copenhagen, as well as throughout Texas. His projects include commercial buildings, resorts, hotels, retail, multifamily housing, golf facilities and residential projects, including more than one hundred custom homes. Dick Clark has many award-winning restaurants and entertainment venues in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin’s downtown Warehouse District. With over 30 years of experience in the Austin, Dick Clark is well known in the community and has a reputation of creating spaces that are warm, inviting and integral to the city fabric.
Dick Clark has contemporary design sensibilities with particular attention to combining humble and rich materials to bring interest and value to a project. His respect for renewable resources combined with his design talent garnered him the first Green Building Design Award from the City of Austin. Dick Clark was honored with the city’s first Downtown Austin Alliance Downtown Impact Award for contributing to the standard of excellence in design.
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