We are looking for outstanding individuals with a passion to create vibrant, inspiring and sustainable places of community, collaboration, discovery, and innovation. The ideal candidates will be creative, self-motivated, and curious, with an innate ability to work effectively as part of a dynamic and innovative team.
Our work evolves from an unwavering commitment to humanistic architecture that embraces the overarching concerns of community, culture, and place. Our shared commitment to this philosophy guides the firm’s work at all scales; from private residences and multi-family housing, to academic and civic buildings, to campus and community planning.
Empowering Students to Connect and Lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Presented by: Sanjeev Khagram, Dean and Director General, Thunderbird School of Global Management | Buzz Yudell, Partner, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | Shawn Swisher, Project Architect & Designer, Jones Studio, Inc.
Global connection is an inherent part of 21st-century leadership and management education. Arizona State University’s (ASU) new global headquarters for the Thunderbird School of Global Management demonstrates how integrated planning, learning space design, and technology can facilitate connections that are key to education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Come learn how integrated planning and technology-suffused learning spaces can support student development, collaboration, and learning necessary for preparing global leaders to thrive.
Modernism Reborn: Reviving Brutalist Icons on the American Campus
Presented by: Jeanne Chen, Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | James Kolker, University Architect, Associate Vice Chancellor, Washington University in St Louis | Neal Matsuno, Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | Adam Padua, Senior Associate, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners
In the aftermath of riots, killings, and the flu pandemic of 1968, America architecture conveyed its optimism for the future through Brutalism. In the wake of similarly troubled times, campuses are once again ready to embrace optimism through renewal. Brutalism has left universities with a legacy of historic concrete buildings, but fifty years later they’re often unpopular and in poor repair. This session will explore how three university campuses looked beyond the troubled exterior and chose whether to replace, repair, or restore their campus’s Brutalist buildings and put their campus assets back to work.
Westside Urban Forum has awarded Santa Monica High School Discovery Building an Honor Award.
Jury Comment:
"This project does a lot of great things very economically. Its calm exterior design belies a sophisticated planning strategy that is focused successfully towards the student experience.”
James Mary O'Connor, FAIA, will be joined by John Dale, FAIA, of HED, to lead tours of the Samohi Discovery Building on May 12 (at 3:30pm and 4:30pm). Check the AIA LA website to register.
James Mary O'Connor will give a presentation on “Evolving Pedagogy; transforming campus, designing for dynamic change” at the Southwest Region Conference in Las Vegas, NV on May 4 from 11:45-12:45 pm.
Thank you Elissaveta Brandon and Fast Company for sharing the story about the Samohi Discovery Building, designed with Open Building principles to ensure a long life (key to community resilience and sustainability goals). From the story: “The building has a loose fit, just like your favorite jacket,” says James Mary O’Connor, a principal at Moore Ruble Yudell.
Read the full article, with photos by Inessa Binenbaum, here.
“Completing construction [at Samohi’s Discovery building] is just the beginning; the process of change continues. It’s about preparing this place for its next 100 years.” -- James Mary O'Connor FAIA, principal at Moore Ruble Yudell, on the Samohi Discovery project, as featured in this month’s issue of Architectural Record.
Thank you to Sarah Amelar for a perceptive story about this complex project, designed for immediate and long term adaptability and resilience.
Moore Ruble Yudell has been selected as the architect and planner for the new University Village at the University of Redlands. MRY was selected as a member of a P3 team led by the town-building consortium REACH LLC (comprised of Republic Metropolitan, Creative Housing Associates, and Arteco Partners).
Long recognized as the heart and soul of the City of Redlands, the University of Redlands is creating this new 30-acre University Village to address the multi-generational housing needs of its campus community and the greater Redlands community as a whole. The development will be created adjacent to the campus, and more importantly, adjacent to the campus’s MetroLink/ Arrow Line rail station.
The University Village, located approximately 60 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, will be a fully-integrated neighborhood where students, locals, visitors and innovators will live, work, and play. The ambitious, multi-phase project aspires to be a gathering place for cultural and intellectual exchange that celebrates Redlands’ rich heritage while it inspires its future.
University Village will offer an array of residential housing options at diverse price points; an exciting market-hall restaurant/retail concept; creative flex work spaces for entrepreneurs and small businesses; and Redlands’ first high-quality boutique hotel with a roof-top bar/restaurant with panoramic views of the San Bernardino Mountains - all within a five-minute walk. Surrounded by a village green and bordered by the historic Mill Creek Zanja tributary, University Village will also be designed and built with the highest level of sustainability best practices - from “cool-streets” to recycled grey water for landscape irrigation - with power supplied by renewable sources.
The team is also committed to a University priority to build a “car light” neighborhood that offers alternative transportation modes including rail transit, new modern bike lanes, and pedestrian friendly sidewalks.
University Village is scheduled to break ground in 2024.
To learn more about the University Village, please visit www.uv-redlands.com
Carissa Oyedele, AIA spoke on a mid-day break-out panel for Day 1 of the AIA|LA Powerful 8 Symposium on Friday September 24, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm. The discussion on “Post Pandemic Life/ Work Integration” covered challenges and opportunities with what the post-pandemic office will look like- including issues of flexibility, connectivity, mentorship, retention, and more.
