Architect, Steven Ross Luria was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. A graduate of the school of Architecture at Virginia Tech in 1980, he has practiced Architecture in California, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Florida. He has worked as an Associate Architect for Arthur Cotton Moore and Shalom Baranes Architects on such projects as Washington Harbor, Renovation of the Library of Congress and The Rosewood Hotel and Office Building, and as Project Architect of the Royal Thai Embassy and Rizik’s Department Store in Washington, D.C., Mr. Luria was one of the founders of Haven Economic Development, Inc. which has provided over 300 affordable housing units throughout South Florida since 1996.

In 1997, he founded Roomscapes, Inc. which has specialized in the perceived “expansion” of interior space through the creative use of layers of various materials, lighting, and painting techniques, and more recently, in creating affordable buildings that respond to South Florida’s extreme heat, humidity, drought, and hurricane force wind conditions. Mr. Luria has designed homes over 9,000 square feet as well as numerous affordable homes including Miami’s first (affordable) LEED certified house which has been featured in articles in the Miami Herald, Home Miami, Concrete Construction Magazine, Residential Concrete Magazine, and on Comcast CNN, CBS, NBC, and WSVN News Stations.