As Managing Partner, Robert Buford is responsible for general and financial management of the firm, business development, and coordination of project execution. Mr. Buford is also responsible for contractual and financial relationships with the firm's clients and has been responsible for the introduction of computerized drafting and financial and project management systems. From 1984 to the present, the firm has grown from a 40-person firm with revenues in the range of $3,000,000 to a 300-person firm of seventeen partners, 50 registered architects, and a professional staff of architectural, landscape, and interior designers, with revenues of more than $65,000,000. The range of building types has expanded from primarily residential to include educational institutions, libraries, federal buildings, office and commercial buildings, hotels and resorts, and its scope of services expanded to include master planning, urban design and product design. Prior to joining this office in 1984, Mr. Buford was Project Architect at Marcellus Wright Cox and Smith Architects in Richmond, Virginia. At Marcellus Wright, he was responsible for completion of construction documents for the Observatory Dining Hall at the University of Virginia, on which the firm was associated with Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and was Designer and Project Architect for a variety of commercial and institutional projects. Mr. Buford was previously with Robert A.M. Stern Architects from 1974 to 1976.
Mr. Buford has taught design at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia and maintained a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was also co-founder of the Richmond Architectural Forum, board member of the James River Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Richmond Renaissance Council of Organizations. He has served as Treasurer of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Treasurer of the New York Foundation for Architecture, and as a member of the Planning Board of the Village of Irvington, New York.
He is a graduate of Columbia University (M. Arch., 1974) and Yale University (B.A. 1967) and recipient of a Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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