about district office

District Office is a full service architecture, planning and design firm based in Brooklyn NY.

predesign

Predesign services including feasibility studies, zoning and code compliance

Building surveys

Programming, masterplanning, testfits

design and documentation and construction

Design, consultant coordination, documentation and permitting

LEED and sustainability consulting

Construction administration, post occupancy services

Building forensics

profile

Peter Rudd believes that good architecture reflects - in the environment and in our lives - our highest aspirations. Good design is simple, sustainable, cost effective appealing and delightful. Peter is committed to achieving the higher goals of architecture using better communication, clear goals and process improvement.

Peter is an architect and planner with twenty years experience in design, project management and construction in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto and South India. His knowledge of detail and process and ability to think quickly and thoroughly has helped to build strong relationships with design partners, owners, developers and construction managers. He has contributed to projects for government, higher education, science and technology, residential and commercial, new build and interiors.

Peter earned a liberal arts degree from the University of British Columbia and Queen’s University at Kingston (BA Honours, English Literature, 1988) and an architecture degree from the University of Toronto (BArch, 1994). He taught senior architecture design studios at Philadelphia University (1998 to 2007) and was an invited critic at NJIT, NYIT, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University, Temple University and Drexel University. He co-directed a study abroad studio in Bombay with Temple University and the D.Y. Patil School of Architecture during the summer of 2008.