Richard Hyatt Fine Art

Richard Hyatt was educated at the advanced placement program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and at the Cooper Union in New York. Currently, Richard teaches at FIDM and UCLA, where he holds classes in architectural drafting.

Throughout his career, Mr. Hyatt has always endeavored to work on both sides of the ‘design line’, that is, to alternate seamlessly between design and fabrication., between design drawings and shop drawings. “To be a good designer, it helps to know how things are built. To be a good fabricator, it helps to understand how things are designed.”

Richards’s drawings have been used by many of today’s leading architects and contractors, including I. M. Pei, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche and John Dinkleloo. He has fabricated sculptures for Elsworth Kelly and Claes Oldenberg. In his spare time he restores classic wooden boats and sails them in the Santa Monica Bay.