B.Arch., Pratt Institute

M.S. AAD, Columbia University

Richard Sarrach is a Principal at form-ula; a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to understand the intersection of design, engineering and its collaborative possibilities to produce high performance architecture for large and small scale projects. He specializes in computation techniques, digital material practices and the ramification that they have on culture. Form-ula  was awarded  the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers in 2011 and lectured at TEDX San Diago in 2012. He has served as the Assistant Director of Exhibitions @ Columbia University and has overseen digital production for The Center for Experimental Structures (CES) under Dr. Haresh Lalvani and Professor Bill Katavlos. He is currently the Director of Digital Futures and an Adjunct Professor in the Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture where he has taught design studios in China, Rome and The United States that have been published and exhibited internationally. He is actively engaged in research on the history of making as a pedagogy as well as the intersection between fabrication and economic agents.