Liz Ranieri, FAIA, is the managing principal of Kuth Ranieri Architects, which she co-founded with Byron Kuth, FAIA, in 1990. Their bicoastal firm has earned a reputation for expressive, site-specific, sustainable architecture, planning, and design. Her collaborative team works across scales and on various project types, from public park pavilions to community museums and airports. A gifted communicator, Ranieri has led design teams, presentations, workshops, and community outreach on public projects with complex stakeholder groups to grow consensus and shepherd shared design goals.
Ranieri holds degrees in fine arts and architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Infrastructure Planning & Management from the University of Washington. She has taught at California College of the Arts, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as a Friedman Professor for the Master of Architecture program at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, and at UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute for Engineering.
Ranieri serves on RISD’s Department of Architecture’s Advisory Council and was the presidential nominee on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Architecture (2012–2020). Her firm’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including: AIA awards at local, regional, and national levels; the Architectural League’s Young Architects and Emerging Voices awards; and Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard. Ranieri was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in the object of design. The firm's monograph, Kuth Ranieri Architects, was published by The Graham Foundation and Princeton Architectural Press.
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