RSP Names David Serrano Managing Principal of RSP’S Corporate Studio
National architecture and design practice taps leader for a growing component of their portfolio.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – 08 May 2025 – RSP, the national architecture and design practice, names David Serrano AIA as Managing Principal of RSP’s Corporate Studio. The appointment reflects the importance of the corporate sector to the RSP portfolio and emphasizes the role of specialist expertise to the firm’s future. Serrano will guide RSP’s relationships within the broader corporate real estate community, including corporate end-users, developers, asset owners and brokers.
“This appointment reinforces David’s role in RSP’s future as much as it emphasizes a firm-wide commitment to providing our clients with a managed, comprehensive suite of solution-based services,” says Andrew W. Burnett, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, RSP’s President and CEO. “David has been a clear, compelling design voice for RSP for many years, but he also brings the business acumen to take us to the next level.”
In a post-COVID world, many corporate clients, office tenants, owners and institutions continue to wrestle with capital assets, portfolios and emerging workplace models that accommodate a shared new reality of remote employees, next wave technology, and multi-generational workforces, among other market-shaping forces. These seismic shifts drive a need to align architecture and design, workplace strategy and consultancy under a single banner. Serrano will lead that charge.
“Great design is the price of entry,” explains Serrano. “But our clients come to us—and keep coming back to us—for answers and solutions to their complex, intractable problems. Because we partner with our clients, and are living through many of the same challenges they face, we bring a blend of pragmatism, innovation and creativity to the table.”
RSP’s corporate practice covers a range of services and project types—from the design of headquarters and build-to-suits to consolidations and ongoing facilities management. The firm’s commercial and workplace solutions align with the objectives and goals of today’s businesses and real estate assets—reimagining physical spaces as dynamic environments that support the ways in which employees work, collaborate and connect.
David Serrano AIA has been instrumental in growing the firm’s corporate portfolio since he joined the firm in 2011. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from North Dakota State University and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
About RSP
Founded in Minneapolis in 1978, RSP Architects has emerged as one of the country’s most trusted, diverse, and agile architecture and design firms. Our clients are a dynamic cross-section of established Fortune 100 global brands and corporations, retailers, innovative start-ups, thoughtful non-profits, government entities, and more. In addition, RSP i_SPACE is a proprietary consultancy service that specializes in facility data, while RSP Dreambox offers environmental and experience-rich design.
RSP is a 100% employee-own organization. With over 375 employees, the practice is headquartered in Minneapolis and maintains offices in Baltimore, MD; Fort Worth, TX; Miami, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Rochester, MN; and Seattle, WA. A subsidiary is based in Bangalore, India.
