Roger Richmond

Mr. Richmond is a Professor of Architecture (ret) in the BArch program (on track) he founded at the University of Maine at Augusta, with more than 35 years of architectural teaching experience…

He was named UMA’s “The Student’s Choice Teacher Of The Year” in 2001…

Roger Richmond was the national competition design winner of the Maine’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial.  He has also won national design competitions in foiled glass art (Glassmaster’s Guild National Art Glass Competition, NYC) and has given (by invitation) a special workshop on glass art design in Kobe, Japan.

He won an International Design Competition memorial (unbuilt) for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., proposed for Cambridge Square in Boston.  He is a registered architect (inactive), and holds a Master of Arts in Architecture Degree from the University of Florida…

He was the first and only architect at the time commissioned by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in Houston, TX to architecturally conceive and design humanistic zero and “artificial” gravity living environments on space stations and planetary fly-by missions…

His work and research for NASA in Hostile Environmental Design continued at the University of Pennsylvania while working toward a Ph.D. and studying conceptual architectural design theory in the World Masters Class of Louis I. Kahn…

Professionally, he is a design consultant and partner and co-founder in SpaceTherapy™ a neuro-genetic design/behavior pre and post-occupancy analysis firm, dealing with the psycho-social impact of designed environments on human behavior. By manipulating the already-existing environment, or anticipating negative design issues in buildings yet-to-be-built,SpaceTherapy™ strives to achieve new and positive behavior patterns for the client…

Mr. Richmond is a 3-D macro nature and architecture photographer with more than 30 years of experience, and has given hundreds of 3-dimensional photographic presentations to public schools and other public and private organizations on art, architecture, and nature (unique 3-D macro photography) statewide, throughout New England, and internationally.

Currently Mr. Richmond lives in South Freeport, Maine with his wife Beverly, and Nora and Lucy, the cats…