Peter Raab is an architect and educator serving as Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University's Huckabee College of Architecture, where he also directs curriculum implementation and semester teaching assignments college-wide. He is the founding Director of the Ecological Architecture + Design Program, which he built from the ground up, initiating its undergraduate certificate, graduate certificate, and M.S. degree pathways, and continues to lead today.
As Coordinator of the Technology Curriculum since 2012, Raab has led a full restructuring of the architectural technology sequence across Texas Tech's campuses, building a hands-on, materials-based pedagogy that pairs technical rigor with design sensibility. His teaching spans upper-level and graduate design studios, integrative studios, and design-build studios, including a series of AISC-funded fabrication projects, the Downtown Arts Gateway steel and ceramic pavilion, and the Cultivating Care outdoor learning structure, alongside graduate-level Integrative Design Studios addressing energy, ecology, and community. His seminars and research center on ecological and sustainable design, examining the cultural and environmental dimensions of architecture and the innovation of building envelopes and skins as responsive climatic systems.
Raab is currently writing Adaptive Skins: Navigating Climate Change with Responsive Building Facades, still under review with Routledge, extending his research on climate-adaptive facades into a full-length study. His teaching has been recognized with Texas Tech's President's Excellence in Teaching Award (2025), and his students have won national design competitions including the ACSA/AISC Steel Student Competition and the ACSA Timber in the City Competition.
Raab founded Raab Architects in 2009, where he leads design work on a series of built and in-progress projects across West Texas and the Llano Estacado, including the Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP) live/work studios in Lubbock and the Canyon House, alongside earlier award-winning small-scale investigations such as Rope House, winner of the 2012 Sukkah City: Austin Competition. Before founding his practice, he worked with Pritzker Prize–winning Foster + Partners in London, Envision Design in Washington, DC. And several smaller firms in Texas, Carolina and Florida.
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