Peter Raab

Associate Professor; Architect

S.D.S., Sustainable Design Specialization, University of Texas at Austin
M. Arch, University of Texas at Austin
B. Design, Architecture, University of Florida
Registered Architect + LEED AP

Peter Raab is an architect and educator. Raab holds a Master of Architecture with a Specialization in Sustainable Design from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Design from the College of Architecture at The University of Florida. His research lies in cultural sustainability where he investigates phenomenology of place and the resonance of materials within architectural design.

Raab has worked with prestigious architectural design firms such as Pritzker Prize winning architect Foster & Partners in London, Burton Baldridge Architects in Austin, and Envision Design in Washington DC, before founding the Austin Design Collaborative in 2009 and Raab Architects in 2014.

As the founder of the award-winning Austin Design Collaborative and Raab Architects, Raab explores material resonance through a series of small, but impactful architectural investigations such as Rope House, winner of the 2012 Sukkah City: Austin Competition, Ice House, entry into the 2015 Warming Huts Competition, along with Adobe, a BaSiC Initiative design-build project in the Sonoran desert of Mexico. These materials-based, site specific architectural interventions continue with his involvement in The Grace Center in Malawi, where Raab has been leading an interdisciplinary and international team of design, community leaders and educators in the design of the new, 6-room schoolhouse, kitchen and dining infrastructure.