DomiteauxGarza Architects

Born in Berkeley, California, I grew up in eight different cities on the West Coast, the Midwest, and the Great Lakes. I completed my education on the East Coast, graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. I started my career as an architect 35 years ago, right here in Dallas, the city my family and I call home.

While architecture is my pride and livelihood, I’ve picked up a few other tricks over the years. I hold patents on several small widgets you’ve never seen or heard of. I restore vintage cars and race Formula Fords. My wife and I were urban farmers before it became a trend, with twenty years experience raising chickens and monster zucchini. Over the years, we’ve also adopted multiple canines, all of which were obsessed with digging up our beloved vegetable garden.

Back in my struggling young architect days, I devised a backup plan for myself and went to culinary school to become a professionally trained chef. Fortunately, my architecture career took off, but my family and friends continue to benefit from my culinary skills. Being a lifelong trivia hound and science nerd, I know just enough about everything to make our dinner parties nearly insufferable for our indulgent friends.

mrd@domiteauxgarza.com

As a native Texan, my travels rarely took me further than Corpus Christi where my father was born although there was the occasional excursion to Mexico. Once in college, however, the world opened up and I’ve never shied away from exploring somewhere that I’d never been which thankfully has taken me all over Southeast Asia and the Middle East along with Europe and even Australia.

Attending and graduating from the Bachelor of Architecture program at The University of Texas at Austin gifted me friends from the farthest reaches and exposed me to cultures which shaped who I became. This constantly comes into play with how we design and the enjoyment we have in working with and understanding how everyone lives in a unique but still unifying way.

After 25 years of doing what I love and working on some amazing projects all over the world, I can’t imagine doing anything else…

ruben@domiteauxgarza.com