DLR Group Appoints New Managing Principals
2024年5月2日 - 8:05PM
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Pamela Touschner, FAIA, and Peter Rutti, AIA,
appointed managing principals as the 100% employee-owned integrated
design firm implements planned leadership transition.
DLR Group announced today that Pamela Touschner, FAIA, and Peter
Rutti, AIA, have each been appointed a DLR Group Managing
Principal.
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Pamela Touschner, FAIA, and Peter Rutti,
AIA, appointed DLR Group Managing Principals (Photo: Business
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Touschner is the firm’s California Region Leader and a member of
DLR Group’s Board of Directors. Rutti is DLR Group’s chief design
officer, responsible for instilling a positive, thriving design
culture to produce design excellence from every team in the firm.
Both are members of the firm’s 15-person executive leadership team,
collaboratively managing the operations for DLR Group’s 1,600
design professionals and 33 global locations.
"A collaborative leadership culture has been a constant thread
in the growth of our 100% employee-owned firm. Instrumental to that
culture is mentoring leadership capital at all levels of our firm,”
said DLR Group CEO Steven McKay, AIA, RIBA. “Pam and Peter embody
this culture and are ready to step in to lead the firm as part of a
planned leadership transition initiated over the past two years.
Pam and Peter are talented, inspirational leaders committed to
creating a culture of equity, diversity, and belonging and to lead
as DLR Group embarks on a new era for the design industry.”
Touschner joined DLR Group in 1993, was named a principal in
2000, senior principal in 2012, and California Region Leader in
2018. In this role she leads 290 employee-owners and manages
operations for the Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego,
San Francisco, and Sonoma offices representing more than $75
million of revenue.
Based in Los Angeles, Touschner is passionate about the practice
of architecture and attracting the next generation of design
professionals. She served on the national AIA Board of Directors
from 2008 -2010, and in multiple leadership positions for AIA Los
Angeles, AIA Inland Empire, and the AIA California Council. She is
active in NOMA at both the national level and Southern California
NOMA chapter.
Rutti joined DLR Group in 2012 as a principal. He is a
recognized expert in the design of performing art centers and
cultural institutions and is instrumental in leading the global
growth of DLR Group’s Cultural+Performing Art practice. Based in
Phoenix, he was named Southwest Region Leader in 2017, responsible
for operations in Colorado Springs, Denver, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.
Rutti was appointed a senior principal in 2020, and chief design
officer in 2022.
As chief design officer, he directs all aspects of the firm’s
integrated process to deliver design excellence and achieve DLR
Group climate and environment commitments to elevate the human
experience through design. Rutti has been a faculty associate and
juror at the Design School of Arizona State University since 2011
and serves as a visiting critic at the UCLA School of Architecture
& Urban Design and the University of Arizona School of
Architecture & Landscape Architecture.
Touschner and Rutti join McKay, COO John Fuller, Assoc. AIA, and
Chair of the Board Griff Davenport, FAIA, as managing principals
and the most senior leaders for the 100% employee-owned integrated
design firm.
About DLR Group
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture,
engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new
construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse. Our promise is to
elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires
sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector
clients; local communities; and our planet. DLR Group is 100
percent employee-owned and fully supports the initiatives and goals
of the 2030 Challenge and is an initial signatory to the China
Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
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