Richard Dagenhart is an architect and serves as Associate Professor of Architecture and Adjunct Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. He currently teaches the seminar, Theories of Urban Design, and the interdisciplinary course, Introduction to Urban Design. He also teaches urban design studios. Recently, these have included City Reassembly-Urban Design Alternatives for the Ford and General Motors properties in Hapeville and Doraville; Atlanta - Urbanizing the Downtown Connector, and the Masters Project Studio: Spaces of Mobility. Other recent studios include the Chattahoochee Hill Projects in South Atlanta, Inhabiting Ponce de Leon Avenue, and I-75/I-85: Incidental Infrastructure-Incidental Urbanism. From 1999 to 2004 he coordinated and taught the Architecture Core II Studios, the first semester of the 3.5 year Master of Architecture curriculum. Dagenhart serves as coordinator of urban design studies, including the Dual M.ARCH/ MCRP degrees, the MSarch/UD and directs the Architecture Summer Study Abroad Program: Modern Architecture and the Modern City - Paris, The Netherlands, Barcelona, Scandinavia.

His research interests focus on the theories and practices of urbanism, crossing interdisciplinary boundaries among architecture, city planning and landscape architecture. Dagenhart recently completed Land Subdivision and Form of the American City with Douglas Allen and Chris Nelson, an initial research project sponsored by the Brookings Institution. This work is continuing, addressing issues codes and coding in subdivision regulations, zoning and public works standards. He has recently initiated a project titled: The Spaces of Mobility - Mobility Urbanism, which addresses the nature and design of the public domain in contemporary cities.

Dagenhart is a frequent participant in urban design symposia and workshops, and he lectures and writes on contemporary urban design issues. From 1994 to 2000 Dagenhart directed the Mayors Institute on City Design: South, a program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. In that role, he visited more than 40 cities in the Southeast and nationally and conducted five Institutes in Atlanta, Chattanooga and Charlotte for 35 mayors throughout the South. He currently coordinates and teaches Tech2Nite: Good Urbanism 101, a public education series on urban design in Atlanta. Dagenhart serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Design and is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design.

After receiving degrees in architecture and anthropology from the University of Arkansas and architecture and city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, Dagenhart has been continuously involved in professional practices in architecture and urban design in Philadelphia, Houston and Atlanta. This work has included downtown urban design projects, planning and urban design for historic districts, and urban housing design. This housing experience includes the architectural design of small residential buildings, neighborhood revitalization projects, and urban design for new urban and suburban communities. Dagenhart is the recipient of several design awards for his housing and community design projects.