 Richard John Haas is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the trompe-l'&oelig;il style. His murals have been commissioned for interiors and exteriors of numerous public and private buildings in the United States. In 1975 Haas painted his first outside mural, a trompe l'oeil version of a cast iron facade on a blank brick side wall of a building at 112 Prince Street. Since then, he has been exploring the intersection of art and architecture through a series of illusionistic murals. By marrying the painted architecture as closely as possible to the existing architecture, he endeavors to make the encounter with the painting as "plausible" as possible, to make one feel that it belongs where it is, that it was always part of the natural cityscape. Called "an architect in all but name" and a "building doctor" by Paul Goldberger in the NY Times, he has won the Doris C. Freedman Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the AIA Medal of Honor. His work has been the subject of several books, countless exhibitions, and a film. 

Richard Haas, NYC muralist, discusses his mural on the facade of 426 West Broadway.

 Richard Haas on his public art project near Hecht Slip, a mural on a Con Edison substation. Haas used oil paints to replicate elements of old photographs of architecture in Manhattan. The mural was redone in silicate paint after 9/11, when the electric company had to break through the wall in order to rewire generators. The project was sponsored by Con Edison and the organization City Walls. 

 Richard Haas will talk about the murals he painted at the former Philip Morris Building across from Grand Central Terminal. 

 Let's start the tour on 44th Street and 6th Avenue. Walking east towards 5th Avenue, you should see on your right the Bar Association Building which features a mural done by Richard Haas in the lobby ceiling completed in 1983. 

 Richard Haas's 2005 mural Glockenspiel was designed to beautify a heavily-graffitied building across from a new housing development in Yorkville. The glockenspiel refers to the area's historically large German population. 

 Richard Haas, NYC muralist, discusses one of his projects on the White Street Detention Center, depicting the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. 

 Between 1981 and 1983, Richard Haas worked on this series of 14 murals for this reading room of the New York Public Library. The original design of the room, by the architects Carrier and Hastings, left space for murals, but Haass was the first to actually execute the commission. The series depicts historic New York publishing, printing, and newspaper buildings. 

 On Richard Haas's mural Eight Manhattan Views, completed in 1979. It can be found at the New York University Center for Continuing Education at 11 W. 42nd St. 

 Richard Haas discusses his mural at the Center for Graduate Studies and Continuing Education at NYU, Eight Manhattan Views. 

 Richard Haas, NYC muralist, discusses his work on the facade of 112 Prince Street, notable for the painting of a cat in the upper window. 

Richard Haas, NYC muralist, discusses his works on the White Street Detention Center Bridge

 Joyce Kozloff's mosaic, Terry Schoonhoven's trompe l'oeil mural, Richard Haas's ceiling mural, and Patsy Norvell's glass installation are all featured in this podcast. 

 Richard Haas talks about his murals for the Alwyn Court Atrium. Haass has long been inspired by the Alwyn Court building; he seized the chance to improve the building during a renovation with an installation that echoes the building's elaborate Francis I architecture. 

Richard Haas, NYC muralist, discusses his mural/facade in Carlyle Court, on 16th street