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COA Alumni

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Richard Epstein

Class Year

Current Hometown:

New York

Job and Employer

Senior Architect and Urban Designer, RNL Design

Graduate School

MIT

Degree

Master of Architecture

Senior project:

Solar Home Design for a Low-Income Family

Human ecology in action:

Even though I’m in a field that can often generate negative impacts, I couldn’t just do conventional work and support conventional values. Human ecology idea still runs through everything. Change is at the heart of COA and I try to bring that idea of how can you build a better world into my work.