RWC Atelier & Company is a design firm founded in 2004 led by Richard Cameron. The company has forged a unique position in the architecture and design fields. We offer a broad range of services from conceptual design consulting to complete design and construction supervision.

Director

Richard Cameron combines a deep knowledge of architectural history and practice with an inexhaustible curiosity about art and its broader context. He is the co-founder of both the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and The Beaux-Arts Atelier, an educational platform for teaching architecture as a fine art. Richard is the founder of the effort to rebuild the original McKim Mead & White designed Penn Station in New York City. He received The Arthur Ross Board of Directors Honor award from the ICA&A in 2013 for his contributions to architectural education. Richard has a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Toronto and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architecture Magazine, Architectural Digest and numerous other publications. He has appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show and Metro Focus with Raphael Pi Roman in New York to talk about the Penn Station initiative.

Atelier & Co. is the proud recipient of several ICA&A awards.

INSTAGRAM

'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...