Michael Palladino, FAIA, FAAR
Design Partner

Partner Michael Palladino portrait photo

As a Principal Designer of Richard Meier & Partners since 1979, Michael Palladino collaborated with Richard Meier to create award-winning projects throughout the world, including the Decorative Arts Museum in Frankfurt, Germany in 1979 and the High Museum in Atlanta in 1981.

Appointed Partner in 1985, Michael moved to Los Angeles the following year to open Richard Meier & Partners’ West Coast office with the primary purpose to design and build the Getty Center. Since that time, he has served as Lead Designer for the Museum of Television & Radio (Paley Center for Media) in Beverly Hills; the Gagosian Gallery and Expansion in Beverly Hills; the Broad Art Center at UCLA; the City Hall for San Jose, California; Camden Medical Centre in Singapore; 9399 Wilshire in Beverly Hills; private residences in Kuala Lumpur, Malibu, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, Santa Ynez, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California; and high-rise luxury condominiums in Philadelphia, Beverly Hills and Honolulu.

Among Michael’s recently completed award-winning commissions are the Edie and Lew Wasserman Building at UCLA and the United States Courthouse in San Diego. Designs in development include the Superior Court of California, Sonoma County and private residences in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1979. He is a Registered Architect in California, New York, Nevada, Virginia and Hawaii. He is a guest lecturer, having spoken at USC, UCLA, the Louisiana Museum of Art, Edmonton Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has served as a guest critic at architectural schools across the U.S.

In 2004, Michael was appointed to the GSA Commissioner’s National Register for Peer Professionals under the GSA’s Design Excellence Program, and awarded the GSA’s Design Excellence Program Certificate of Appreciation for his contribution to quality architecture. A recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize for the year 2000–2001, and the 2005 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles, Michael was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA in 2008.