Peter DeMaria

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Full Name	Peter DeMaria
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Oct 24, 1960(1960-10-24)
Age	64
Country	United States
Birth City	Madison
Horoscope	Libra

Peter DeMaria Biography

Peter DeMaria is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on October 24, 1960 in Madison, United States. Peter DeMaria (born October 24, 1960 in Madison, New Jersey) is an American architect and artist known for his non-conventional use of materials and construction/fabrication methodologies.

“Some people assume that yet-to-be-invented high-tech materials and systems will be the saviors of our construction industry. New technology can be great, but some of the answers to our building challenges are right in front of us. We need to look more closely at existing materials and systems from commercial construction and other industries and ask how they might be adapted, adjusted, or recycled to meet our domestic architecture needs. It’s less glamorous than creating renderings of new home designs, but we need to look at how to design efficient processes that leverage the economies of scale inherent in existing industrial components and systems.”

DeMaria created The Redondo Beach House departing from the traditional and historical meaning of “architecture” and professed “…this project is the exemplar for an innovative, less expensive method of construction and design called “Architecture as an item”. The AIA has praised his work, however his ideas have come under fire from the academic and professional architectural world – his mixing of industrial, product and architectural design, into a novel hybrid challenge the way in the manner in which architecture is practised.

Peter DeMaria Net Worth

Peter DeMaria is one of the richest Architect from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter DeMaria 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

DeMaria is a native of Madison, New Jersey. He graduated with his bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Kean University in 1982 and an master of Architectural degree from 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was employed by Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall briefly in the year 1990 prior to establishing his own design studio with his own practice in Los Angeles, California in 1992. DeMaria was awarded the RAND Corporation’s First Prize Award in their 1997 Design Competition. in 2006 DeMaria developed The Redondo Beach House which was the first two-story shipping container residence that was built in the U.S. It is a ratified design and construction system that follows specific guidelines set by the internationally acknowledged Uniform Building Code, the Redondo Beach House is composed of eight recycled ISO cargo containers. The design of DeMaria was awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor in Excellence Award for innovation in 2007. .,”. The Redondo Beach House is a hybrid residence which has won recognition, and has been published in various publications around the world and has been acknowledged as the first two-story cargo container-based home within the United States that legally complies with the Uniform Building Code. DeMaria was the winner of the Bank of Manhattan Innovative Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his innovative and dedicated business growth that focuses on innovative design and building methods and systems. in 2008, DeMaria founded Logical Homes LLC Logical Homes LLC, a business that offers prefabricated homes that use the shipping containers as the primary structural element. Since 2009, DeMaria’s innovative concepts and work were the center of an Lexus advertisement campaign to promote hybrid electric vehicles within the automobile sector.. The design he created of the Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles Four-Square Parsonage won an award in 2009. American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Award. In 2011 his design for the Red Bull USA FMX- Data Lounge and Center received the AIA Design Award Citation. DeMaria has been teaching architecture since 1995. He currently is a part-time professor within the Design Dept. at California State University at Long Beach. DeMaria also teaches Design Studio as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and of Architecture. of Architecture.

DeMaria’s container based work is seen “mainly as an “experiment” at this time”, said Bill Gati, a member of the American Institute of Architects Custom Residential Design Committee. “It’s cutting-edge, and Architects who design with containers are considered mavericks and trail blazers,”. DeMaria dedicated five years to taking the messengers of consumerism (shipping containers) and converting them into role models for an environmental and economical housing solution.” He compares his creations to Andy Warhol’s prints, McDonald’s hamburgers, and the textile block houses of Frank Lloyd Wright. “We are reinterpreting and re-presenting the best of these processes in a different medium… a new process by which future construction projects will be delivered”. His work follows no distinct style but he fuses prefabrication, principles that were professed by Buckminster Fuller and an experimental attitude regarding materials and systems. Like Fuller, he visualizes architecture fulfilling a critical force on the planet, “I’ve come to reject the limitations of sustainability. Sustainability isn’t enough. Our buildings must be more than simply contributors to a more environmentally conscious society—they must become functioning icons that spearhead new advances.” Dwell Magazine profiled his ideas on the Future of Prefab in which he stated,

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Peter DeMaria celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.