Peter Rutti is DLR Group’s chief design officer, member of the firm’s executive leadership team and board of directors. He guides the firm in fulfilling its promise to elevate the human experience through design, with a relentless focus on design excellence. Peter leads DLR Group’s integrated design practice and is deeply committed to fulfilling the firm’s climate and environment commitments through innovative, functional, and beautiful design. For more than 25 years, he has served as a guest juror at leading design schools across the West Coast and the Southwest and has also contributed as a faculty associate in the Design School at Arizona State University. His focus over the past 30 years has been on the design of Performing Art Centers, Museums, Art colleges, US Consulates and strengthening design cultures within the studios he works.