Urban Land Institute

Rives Taylor has more than 35 years’ experience in institutional and commercial architecture with 35 years spent focusing on strategic planning, programming, and sustainable design, scaled from facility operations to campus and city planning. A Texas-practicing architect/educator, Rives has lead Gensler’s Firmwide Design Resilience Task Force and now leads the Gensler Research Institute Resilience Center. He casts a wide net in elevating both the why and how of sustainable design, including students, faculty, professionals, public officials, and the public. He is on the Board of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute He is part of the editorial team that produces the annual "Climate Action Through Design." In 2015 Rives led Gensler’s delegation to the Paris Climate Conference/Agreement and led the editorial team for the recent publications. He is also part of the leadership team rolling out the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3: The Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3) | Gensler) and the Gensler Product Sustainability Standards (GPS: Gensler Product Sustainability Standards | Gensler) Rives has been a general member and occasional board member of the ULI Sustainable Development product council for over 10 years. Locally he has been the inaugural director of the Houston ULI Chapter Building Healthy Places Council. He has engaged in two Professional Advisory Panels for Broward County and for the Duwamish River (Seattle) resilience focus.