Richard McElhiney AIA
Richard McElhiney AIA has practiced architecture for forty years. He attended Yale College and received his BA cum laude with Distinction in Architecture in 1975. He received his Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 1979.
He worked for nineteen years at Kliment Halsband Architects. He became an Associate Partner in 1992 and a Partner 1997. The firm received the National AIA Architecture Firm Award in 1997 and the NYC AIA Medal of Honor in 1998. He holds an NCARB certificate and is a registered Architect in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
In 2002, he founded Richard McElhiney Architects LLC to provide the highest level of architectural services available.
His practice has focused on civic and institutional buildings & renovations. He has also completed the design of multiple workplaces and residences. Richard has been partner-in-charge or project architect for forty-seven educational building projects or studies and twenty-four civic projects. Thirty of his projects have included the renovation or restoration of historic structures.
Projects on which Richard has worked have received over 30 awards for design.
Richard has been a visiting critic at Columbia School of Architecture and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has lectured on academic and civic building issues, and he co-authored the National AIA’s publication, The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice (13th edition).
