Peter De Bretteville Email and Phone Number

House in Mountain Lake, Florida

Peter de Bretteville, Yale University, B.A. 1963, M.Arch 1968, is the founder and principle of Peter de Bretteville, Architect, in Hamden, Connecticut.After receiving his Masters degree from the Yale University School of Architecture, Peter de Bretteville worked in the office of Giancarlo De Carlo in Milan, Italy for two years. There he completed a variety of projects including the restoration of the Teatro Sanzo in Urbino, and a paper factory the Container Corporation of America. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles in 1970 he co-founded the partnership WORKS which immediately won several awards. From 1974 he was in independent practice until 1982 when he formed the partnership of de Bretteville and Polyzoides. While in that partnership he carried out a number of civic and campus projects. The final collaboration of that partnership was a 20 year plan for downtown Los Angeles. In 1990 he dissolved that partnership to found his current firm in Connecticut.In California he taught at the California Institute of the Arts 1970-73, at UCLA 1973-76 and at USC 1976-90. Since 1990 he has been a Visiting Critic at the Yale University School of Architecture. He has lectured in the U.S. and Canada on his work, campus planning and other theoretical and historical issues. At the Yale School of Architecture Commencement Ceremony in 2013 Peter de Bretteville was awarded the Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award.While his architectural work has focused on college and university long term planning and buildings, Peter de Bretteville has completed a variety of other projects, civic centers, housing and residences. He has also served as design consultant to MYA for a series of high rise residential projects in Seoul, Korea.His work has been featured in many books and magazines on architecture and planning. Several of his projects are currently included in two exhibitions in Los Angeles, one at the Schindler House the other at the SciArc Gallery.