Richard Moreta Castillo, also known as Richard Moreta, is an American architect, urban planner, industrial designer, artist, and a diplomat. Biography Castillo was born in New York City, United States and grew up in the Dominican Republic. At the age of five, Castillo won a painting competition, and was discovered by the Dominican Artist Nidia Serra, who was part of the jury of the event. She noticed Richard's early dominion of perspective theory and advanced notion of color composition and took him as her protégé. Whilst receiving formal artistic training in figure drawing and oil painting, he became increasingly preoccupied about the arts and thus pursued studies at the , Dominican Republic, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture and urban planning from UNPHU (Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña), UCE (Universidad Central del Este), 1986. His work has then exhibited in several galleries in the US, the Caribbean and Europe. Up until now, his exploration scope ranges from abstract painting techniques to the aesthetics of the industrial design. The universe of visual arts paved solid foundations for his practice in architecture —another of his early passions— and had been ever since his main vehicle of communication. He continued his studies overseas at the Miami Dade Community College, Corps of Engineers, Rollins College, University of South Florida, Futurarium (Affiliates School of the Politecnico di Milano in 2002, the part of the Master program of the NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano) under Alessandro Guirreiro and received his Master Dottorato in Design in 2002. Master and PhD courses at Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar (IfEU, Germany). As a member of the "Studio Radiosity" (ex members of the "Menphis" design movement with Guirreiro, Mendini & Ettore Sottsass), he participated in a movement that was at the avant-garde of design in the 1990s. This was followed by work with the firm, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) in 2001, Arquitectonica in 2004 – where he specialized in large projects, from airport design to high-end luxury towers in the five continents. In 1996, three Civilian Medals (Department of Defense, Corps of Engineers and United Nations) were presented to Richard Moreta for the responsibilities in the design and processing of high-visibility projects during the Balkans war. His service reflected these great credits placed upon him and had da direct contribution to the successful supportofo the program byproviding a significant amount of