Edward Richardson Brya, AIA

Founder

Rich is principal architect and President of Brya Architecture.  Brya and his firm have maintained a critical design practice that strives to create place specific projects uniquely suited to their clients’ needs. His work is a continuing investigation in the ways of building, and the ability to create meaningful spaces through tectonic manipulations. Brya has been a builder since 1995 as well, giving Rich and his collaborators an opportunity to carry the design ethos of a project through to the smallest details. The rigorous, careful detailing of the work has helped Brya be recognized with several AIA awards.

Rich has lived, studied and worked on both coasts and in the middle, and studied and taught in Ceurnavaca, Mexico. He earned his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Washington, and has a Bachelor of Science in Design from Clemson University. In addition to his work in practice, Brya has taught at the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington and at the Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design  at the University of Arkansas.

Brya has served as the Design Awards Chair for AIA Arkansas, and has served on design awards juries for AIA Nebraska, AIA Middle Tennessee, and AIA Central States region.  He has volunteered on several National Council of Architectural Registration Boards’ committees, where he helped develop content for the Architect Registration Examination. He is currently the President of AIA Arkansas, and serving on the Board of Directors.

Sally Senn

Architectural Designer

Ryan Harris

Architectural Designer

Ryan is an architectural designer. He graduated in 2022 from the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. He is involved in every phase of design, from ideation to final delivered drawings. His primary interest and concern as a designer is in making great space that serves the needs of its inhabitants. 

He believes the site should be one of the first considerations, not only to accommodate the best views, but also with regard to local precedent, passive heating and cooling, and natural lighting. At all scales of design, Ryan is interested in finding ways to leverage emerging technologies and materials without forgetting the long history of design and construction in the Ozarks that makes this place unique.