Rick Joy - Career and Recognition

Career and Recognition

From the beginning, each of RJA’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. He periodically serves as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rice University and M.I.T. and he lectures extensively on the firm’s work throughout the world. In 2002, Joy’s first monograph was published entitled Rick Joy: Desert Works, the first in the Princeton Architectural Press/Graham Foundation invited New Voices in Architecture series.

Working largely on private houses, typically in desert regions of the United States, Joy frequently employs rammed earth in his designs. In addition, He 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.

In 2008, Joy was chosen as one of the international architects that will be part of the development of the Pan-American Villa in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico around the Morelos Park for 2011 Pan American Games . According to the architect his building will be strongly influenced by the traditional arches of the old buildings in the downtown of the city but with a slight twist, according to him arches and shadows will be the base of his project. Rick Joy will be the only non-Spanish speaker involved on the project, between the team of architects that will work on this project we can find the Catalan Carme Pinos and Chilean Mathias Klotz