Richard Manion received his architectural degree from Columbia University in New York, where he studied American and European architectural history under noted historians Howard Hibbard and Joseph Connors. Manion started his career in New York in the offices of two of the country’s most prominent architectural firms—Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Los Angeles Conservancy and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
