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Richard Olcott

Richard Olcott

Richard Olcott, FAIA, is Design Partner at Ennead Architects (a CannonDesign company) in New York, known for academic, cultural, and sustainable designs like the mass-timber Princeton science complex.

Sep 21, 2026

Design:ED

Design:ED

Richard Olcott - Ennead, A CannonDesign Company

Sep 21 · 41m

Aaron PrinzHOST
11:03
So can you take us through when that brief first came in, the initial concept and the design process that got it to where it is today?
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:12
It's enormous.
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:13
It's ginormous.
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:15
It's four buildings, actually.
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:17
It's actually one continuous building that's disguised as four buildings, but we'll get into that in a minute.
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:23
We've been doing this for eight years.
Richard Olcott
Richard OlcottGUEST
11:24
It's just finished now, just like in the last month or two.

15 MINS LATER

Aaron PrinzHOST
26:37
When is the Richard Alcott Center for Architecture going to pop up at Stanford University?

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