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