Peter Devereaux
Founding Principal
HED
Peter Devereaux was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and received a BS in Architecture from Penn State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University. Cesar Pelli was Dean of the Yale School of Architecture at that time and hired Peter to work for him upon graduation. In 1985, Devereaux left Pelli’s office in New Haven, CT to take a design leader role with a nine-person firm in Los Angeles where he eventually became a Principal.
Under Peter’s leadership as CEO, that small firm, Fields Devereaux, grew to a staff of 175 people and expanded into three cities in California. In 2006, Fields Devereaux merged with HarleyEllis, a Michigan-based corporation established in 1908, to form Harley Ellis Devereaux, an integrated practice of architects, engineers and planners. Today HED has 450 employees in ten cities nationwide.
Peter was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2006 and served as a member of the Executive Committee of AIA’s Large Firm Roundtable from 2014 through 2020. In 2023 he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Innovation Design Consortium, a public benefit corporation formed by forty of the largest design firms in the country to advance the utilization of technology within the design space.
Under Peter’s leadership as CEO, that small firm, Fields Devereaux, grew to a staff of 175 people and expanded into three cities in California. In 2006, Fields Devereaux merged with HarleyEllis, a Michigan-based corporation established in 1908, to form Harley Ellis Devereaux, an integrated practice of architects, engineers and planners. Today HED has 450 employees in ten cities nationwide.
Peter was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2006 and served as a member of the Executive Committee of AIA’s Large Firm Roundtable from 2014 through 2020. In 2023 he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Innovation Design Consortium, a public benefit corporation formed by forty of the largest design firms in the country to advance the utilization of technology within the design space.