Studio — Richard Beard Architects

OUR STUDIO

Our studio’s work is significantly informed by how architecture can integrate with interior and landscape design to achieve a unified design that is more than the sum of its constituent parts.

Every project draws from the land, and the process of design begins there as we integrate a client’s aspirations, culture, program and desire with context, perspective, sustainability and resources. Every client relationship is tailor-made, and every solution is site-specific. The ongoing dialogue with our clients is an iterative process, enjoyable and creative; artful and engaging.

In addition to our custom home clients, we’ve had had the pleasure of collaborating with companies and entities as diverse as Polo Ralph Lauren, Mumm Napa Valley, Half Century More Tokyo, the National Park Service, and Agassi-Graff LLC.

Our offices are located in San Francisco, in a neighborhood called Dogpatch.

RICHARD BEARD

Connection to setting, reverence for materials, and devotion to functional beauty are the hallmarks of Richard Beard’s namesake firm, a practice dedicated to site-specific architecture that integrates the built and natural environments—urban or wild—in ways both graceful and sustainable. All his designs, whether custom homes, remodels for growing families, or new-build commercial spaces, share a rightness for the situation and a timeless, thoughtful sensibility.

Over his career, Richard has designed projects featured in Architectural Digest, Luxe Interiors + Design, and California Home + Design, among other publications; his inspired approach to site context, especially, has received national awards and recognition, including his elevation to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2010.

BRETT MOYER

Partnering with Richard Beard since 2022—after serving as Richard’s senior designer and studio director since 2019—Brett Moyer approaches the firm’s practice as a responsive, holistic one that expresses its clients’ visions and enhances their lives. Brett’s refined aesthetic, based on an eye for the essential and poetic in design, has evolved over his 25 years in the field, but remains rooted in an expression of authentic materials, conceptual rigor, and collaborative approach. Known for a body of work defined by a contemporary approach to space and a deep understanding of context, Brett brings connoisseurship to each of his projects, in which craftsmanship and warmth combine to shape environments that live well and promote well-being.

OUR TEAM

RICHARD BEARD, FAIA
Principal, Founder

BRETT MOYER
Principal, Partner

REBECCA LISCHWE, AIA
Associate Principal

DANIEL WIDLOWSKI, AIA
Associate Principal

ALEXANDRA DEL CASTILLO
Director of Operations

PATRICK COLOT
Associate

MICHELLE DUMONT, AIA
Associate

MATT EVANS
Associate

DAYNE BEACOM

GIORGIO FAMIGLIETTI

PAULA KARLOVAC

JACOB KENNY

MATTHEW MOCHIZUKI

ANGELO PANCINI, AIA

KATHERINA PISHCHIK

OLYA BRYAZKA REED, AIA

JAKE TAYLOR

YIMENG TENG, AIA

JORDAN TSAI

NATHAN O. WAISATH, AIA

SASHA VORLICKY

LINGYUE WANG

SHUANG YAN, LEED AP