Peter Rae
- Tutor, ADS5
- Architecture MA Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)
Peter is an Architect with GROUPWORK. He has broad international experience having worked with several design led studios in the UK, US, and Spain.
Peter is a studio tutor for ADS5 along with Amin Taha and Jason Coe. In addition to supporting the objectives and design methodology of ADS5, Peter brings professional insight and experience, as well as personal interest towards developing graphic techniques of Visualisation and Representation, both in terms of process and spatial understanding.
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Practice
Peter is a practicing Architect with GROUPWORK and amongst a wide mix of project types and scales, he led the winning 2 stage International Competition for Sofia Metro Station 20 in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he delivered the keynote lecture at Sofia Architecture Week and worked as Project Architect on RIBA awarded projects such as Golden Lane and 168 Upper Street.
In the US, Peter ran several large-scale, AIA award-winning buildings, from initial conception, through to construction. Throughout his varied experience, his interests are sustained in the process and representation of design and construction, specific building elements and the many parameters that shape our built environment.
Awards
AIA Henry Adams Medal, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Gold Medal, Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Harry E. Parker Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Top Three Finalist, SOM Prize, 2007.
2nd Prize, Stewardson Design Competition & Memorial Scholarship, 2007.
Walter R. Leach II Fellowship in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
First Prize, Dales Traveling Fellowship Portfolio Competition, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
First Prize, The Imagination Cube, Arizona AIA Competition, 2004.
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Peter’s professional contributions with GROUPWORK and various other design studios have been published and exhibited widely.
Publications and exhibitions of his individual work include:
Publications
Rae, Peter William. (2021) ‘The Over Under: Drawing as Process’, Drawing Matter, 10 June. Available at: https://drawingmatter.org/the-over-under/
(2012) Dirt, Volume II in the VIA book series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: PennDesign and The MIT Press. Drawing featured on pp. 162-163.
Exhibitions
(2007) Storefront / Control Group Student Design Awards. Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibition, New York, NY.
(2007) PennDesign Gallery exhibition. Center for Architecture, New York, NY.
External collaborations and activities
(2021– present) Faculty, ESNE (Escuela Universitaria de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología) in Madrid, Spain.
(2016–19), Invited panelist for the RiNo Design Review Committee (RiND), Denver, Colorado.
(2016–17) Consultant to the RiNo Arts District in Denver, Colorado, working on Zoning Overlay Requirements & Design Guidelines, progressive changes to urban design and building massing which have now been implemented by the local authority.