Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners

Profile of Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, headquartered in United States. Two projects submitted by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

Principals

John Ruble
Buzz Yudell
James Mary O’Connor
Krista Becker
Jeanne Chen
Neal Matsuno
Mario Violich
Michael S. Martin

Brief description

Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, in over thirty years of practice, has earned a national and international reputation for excellence in design based on an unwavering commitment to humanistic principles and thoughtful development of unique solutions to an extraordinary range of projects and places. Under the leadership of Partners John Ruble, FAIA, Buzz Yudell, FAIA, and Principals James Mary O’Connor, AIA, Michael S. Martin, AIA, Krista Becker, AIA, LEED® AP, Jeanne Chen, AIA, Neal Matsuno, AIA, LEED® AP, Mario Violich, AIA, ASLA, and Associate Principal Stanley Anderson, AIA, IIDA, the firm has built a diverse portfolio of award-winning work that embraces and addresses the critical concerns of community and identity. The desire to create meaningful, memorable, and sustainable places, inspired by climatic and cultural understandings, has guided the firm’s work at all scales from private residences and multi-family housing, to academic and civic buildings, to community and campus master planning and design.

This wide range of work develops from a single office that fosters a culture of communication and cross-fertilization between staff and projects. Our inherently collaborative approach extends to a broader community of public and private sector clients and colleagues, adding vitality and authenticity to the design process and ultimately enriching the quality and meaning of each effort. The firm’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications and recognized through over 200 awards for design excellence, including the 1992 AIA California Firm of the Year Award, the 2007 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal for John Ruble and Buzz Yudell, a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada National Urban Design Award, three Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards and seven National AIA Honor Awards for architectural and urban design.

In 2006, Moore Ruble Yudell received the Architecture Firm Award, the highest recognition the National American Institute of Architects can bestow. In making this award, The AIA Committee on Design stated: “The firm has consistently produced an outstanding body of work rooted in a deep commitment to humanistic architecture. Their work is widely admired for its spirited celebration of habitation at many scales and its respect for people, context and place. The firm continues to evolve in response to new challenges and opportunities while remaining true to the fundamental principles of humanism.”

At the core of our practice in architecture, planning, urban design, landscape design, interior design, and graphics, we continue to evolve an inclusive process resulting in humane, beautiful, and evocative places that reflect and respond to real needs and desires. Through our diverse body of work that includes campus, education, performance, research, justice, mixed-use retail and housing, we seek authentic contemporary design solutions that are grounded in a philosophy that respects the natural and cultural character of its place and builds upon the most basic responses to site, context, and community. The firm aspires to create environments that celebrate human activity through a commitment to environmentally responsible design that has evolved from a wide range of design efforts throughout the United States and around the globe.

Our broad international experience has provided valuable lessons in understanding, preserving and heightening the experiences that differentiate one place from another. Our philosophy is to preserve what is best about each context and to design places that are more than simply the sum of their parts. Moore Ruble Yudell has regarded this ongoing commitment as a tremendous opportunity to strengthen the spirit, culture and aspirations of each client we serve.

Published projects

: Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners A Sustainable Response to an Urban Challenge: Transforming the Parking Structure A Civic Gateway A recently completed Master Plan for the Civic Center...

: Award-Winning Grangegorman Masterplan by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners The Grangegorman Masterplan creates a vibrant campus for Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) by responding to...

Key projects

Luxe Lakes Residential Development, Chengdu, China
Santa Monica Village Master Plan, Santa Monica, California
NBC-Universal Backlot Master Plan, Universal City, California
New Town Master Plan and Housing, Xinhe, Tianjin, China
Camana Bay Town Master Plan, Grand Cayman Island
Nishiokamoto Housing Master Plan, Kobe, Japan
Saint John’s Health Center South Campus Master Plan, Santa Monica, California
Amber Bay, Dalian, China
Disney Imagineering GC3 Master Plan, Glendale, California
Serendra Mixed Use Retail / Housing, Fort Bonifacio Global City, Manila, Philippines
Arcadien Housing, Potsdam, Germany
Entertainment Office Campus Master Plan, Los Angeles, California
Ewa Marina Master Plan, Oahu, Hawaii
Göttingen Transit-Oriented Master Plan, Bahnhof Westseite, Germany
Karow-Nord Town Master Plan and Housing, Karow, Germany
Ocean Park Beach Master Plan, Santa Monica, California
Park Place Master Plan, Irvine, CA (project)
Playa Vista Entertainment Media Technology District, Los Angeles, California
San Juan Capistrano Master Plan, San Juan Capistrano, California
Tegel Harbor Master Plan & Housing, Berlin, Germany
Little Tokyo Block 8, Los Angeles, CA (competition)
Dreamworks SKG Headquarters, Los Angeles, California
Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure, Santa Monica, California
Plaza Las Fuentes Mixed-use Development, Pasadena, California
606 Broadway, Santa Monica, California
Ocean Avenue Corporate Headquarters, Santa Monica, California
Peek & Cloppenburg Department Store, Leipzig, Germany
DC Ranch Mixed-Use Town Center, Scottsdale, Arizona
Playa Vista Master Plan and Housing, Los Angeles, California
Schiffbauer Damm Competition, Berlin, Germany
Solana Office Park, Dallas, Texas
Tiergarten Drieck Office Building, Berlin, Germany
Malibu Housing, Malibu, California
United States Embassy, Berlin, Germany
American Institute, Taipei
Korea Embassy Compound Master Plan, Seoul, Korea
New Embassy Compound Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
New Embassy Compound The Hague, Netherlands
New Embassy Compound Beirut, Lebanon
New Embassy Compound Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Robert E. Coyle U.S. Courthouse, Fresno, California
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Center for World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Beijing Wanhao Century Center, Beijing, China (competition)
Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, California
Humboldt Library, Berlin, Germany
National Tropical Botanical Garden Library, Kauai, Hawaii
Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai, China (project)
St. Louis Art Museum, West Wing Renovations, St. Louis, Missouri
ConstellationCenter, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hollywood Entertainment Museum, Hollywood, California (project)
East Campus Master Plan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
South Lawn Project, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Law-Business Connection, University of California, Berkeley
Claremont McKenna College Master Plan, Claremont, California
University and Healthcare Master Plan, Grangegorman, International Design Competition, Dublin, Ireland
Campus Land Use Planning and Feasibility Study, University of California Los Angeles
Central Campus Residential Plan, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Master Plan & Integrated Teaching Buildings, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dong-Hwa National University Master Plan, Taiwan
Kao-Shiung National Institute of Technology Master Plan, Taiwan
New Campus Master Plan, University of Washington, Tacoma
Dartmouth College North Campus Plan, Hanover, New Hampshire
Science Complex Master Plan, University of Oregon, Eugene
Stein Plaza Planning Study, University of California, Los Angeles
Stanford Adult Hospital Planning Studies, Palo Alto, California
Student and Faculty Housing Master Plan (Inclusion Area D), University of California, Santa Cruz
University Boulevard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
West Village Implementation Plan, University of California, Davis
UC Santa Cruz Master Plan & Faculty Housing, Santa Cruz, California
Sloan School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Bio-Engineering Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
The French Family Science Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Walter A. Haas School of Management, University of California, Berkeley
Student Community Center, University of California, Berkeley
Baxter Hall Study, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Cellular & Molecular Biology Research Facilities, University of California, San Diego
Chemistry Building Addition, University of Washington, Seattle
Class of 1953 Commons, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Horace Mann Elementary School, San Jose, California
Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library Addition, University of California, Los Angeles
Fairchild Engineering Library, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
St. Albert Hall Library Renovation, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kemeny Hall & Haldeman Centers, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
New Science Building, University of Washington, Tacoma
Phase 1–3 Buildings, University of Washington, Tacoma
Physical Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz
Powell Library Restoration, University of California, Los Angeles
Russell T. Tutt Science Building, Colorado College, Colorado Springs
John Brookes Williams Science Center, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
University of Oregon Science Complex, Eugene, Oregon
Manzanita Village, University of California, Santa Barbara
McLaughlin Cluster Housing, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Avery House, California Institute of Technology
North Campus Housing, University of California, San Diego (competition)
North Houses Study, California Institute of Technology
Doris Student Housing, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (project)
Knoll Student Housing, Stanford University (project)
Nishiokamoto Housing, Kobe, Japan
Amber Bay Villas, Dalian, China
Tianjin Housing, Xinhe, China
Chun Sen Bi An Housing, Chongqing, China
Serendra Housing Fort Bonifacio Global City, Manila, Philippines
Watermark, San Francisco, California
Yesilyurt Condominiums, Istanbul, Turkey
606 Broadway, Santa Monica, California
Arcadien Housing, Potsdam, Germany
Güzelce Villas, Istanbul, Turkey
Karow-Nord Housing, Berlin, Germany
Kirchsteigfeld Housing, Potsdam, Germany
Klingelhofer Diplomat Housing, Berlin, Germany
Potatisåkern Housing and Villas, Malmö, Sweden
Regatta Wharf at Jackson’s Landing, Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia
Tango, Bo01 Exhibition Housing, Malmö, Sweden
Tegel Harbor Phase I Housing, Berlin, Germany
Kartanesi Winter Resort Hotel, Bursa Uludag, Turkey
Fairmont Towers Hotel Addition, San Jose, California
Resort Development, Southeast China
The Sea Ranch Lodge, Sea Ranch, California
Malibu Mesa Hotel, Malibu, California
Ocean Avenue Hotel, Santa Monica, California
Parador Hotel, San Juan Capistrano, California (project)
Beverly Hills Hotel Feasibility Study, Beverly Hills, California
Plaza las Fuentes, Pasadena, California
Kwee House, Singapore
Anawalt House, Malibu, California
Baas/Walrod House, Sea Ranch, California
Elizabeth Moore House, Orinda, California
Falkenberg House, Woodside, California
Graalfs House, Berlin, Germany
Groth House, Mustique
Gunderson House,
Inman House, Atlanta, Georgia
Livermore House, Carmel, California
Marine Street House, Santa Monica, California
Moir House, California
Peg Yorkin House, Malibu, California
Percival/Westbrook House, Newport Beach, California
Rodes House, Los Angeles, California
Ruddell House, Kauai, Hawaii
Schetter House, Pacific Palisades, California
Shmuger/Hamagami House, Pacific Palisades, California
Umbach/Gunderson House, The Sea Ranch, California
Villa Superba, Venice, California
Walrod House, Berkeley, California
Wasserstein House, Santa Barbara, California
Yudell/Beebe House, Malibu, California
Gilbert House remodel, Los Angeles, California
Halprin House renovation, The Sea Ranch, California
Maguire Beach House interior remodel, Carpenteria, California
Wilson House interior remodel, Malibu, California
Church of the Nativity, Rancho Santa Fe, California
Congregation Beth El, Berkeley, California
First Church of Christ Scientist, Glendale, California
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Pacific Palisades, California