Richard Landry
| Richard Landry | |
|---|---|
| Born | Canada |
| Residence | Malibu, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Architect |
Richard Landry is a Canadian-born American architect. Known as the "King of the Megamansion," he has designed many private residences for corporate moguls and celebrities in Los Angeles County, California.
Richard Landry grew up speaking French in Quebec, and his father was a carpenter. At the age of twenty, he moved to Montreal to study architecture. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Université de Montréal, in Québec, Canada, and a Diploma in Architecture and Urban Design from the Kobenhahn Universitat, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Landry started his career in Alberta, Canada. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1984 because of a recession in Canada, and he was lured by the 1984 Summer Olympics. He initially worked for R. Duell & Associates, an architectural firm where he designed theme parks.
Landry founded his architectural firm, the Landry Design Group, in the 1987. Since then, he has designed over 500 private residences, including some for Michael Bolton, Wayne Gretzky and Rod Stewart. In 1995, he designed a residence for Kenny G in Seattle. Additionally, the rented mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles where Michael Jackson died was also designed by Landry.
Landry designed the Villa del Lago in Malibu, California, a bluffside 23,000-square-foot mansion with views of Lake Sherwood and the Santa Monica Mountains, which was selected by Robb Report as their Ultimate Home in 2013. He designed a 40,000-square-foot, 28-bedroom mansion with footridges between buildings in Los Angeles, California., which was originally the location of the private residence of Burt Bacharach. A 9,000-square-foot Italian Mediterranean villa in the gated community of Mulholland Estates in the Beverly Hills Post Office was an older project designed by Landry Design Group and built in 2000. It was sold for US$5.200 million in 2011. Examples of his designs are a Modernist residence in Los Angeles, a Spanish-style home in Pacific Palisades, and another residence in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
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