Ryan joined PAYETTE in 2016 immediately impacting the firm with his exemplary design authorship. Spanning concept, execution, critical clarity and tectonics, his inventive design leadership is manifest at all scales, both interior and exterior, on all of his projects. With particular dexterity integrating diverse project objectives with clear and innovative design, Ryan has been the Project Architect and design leader for Lafayette College’s Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center, Bates College’s Bonney Science Center, Penn State’s Engineering Collaborative Research & Education Building (ECoRE), Wesleyan University’s New Science Building and, currently, UMass Amherst’s Sustainable Engineering Labs.
Prior to PAYETTE, Ryan was a member of MIT’s architecture design faculty and he continues to be a regular critic for design studios at Harvard, MIT, RISD and Northeastern. He is currently an integral part of PAYETTE’s recruiting and interviewing team.
EDUCATION
M.Arch., 2009, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Architecture, 2000, University of Texas at Arlington
