Inspire People. Transform Lives

Master planning, architecture, and interior design is what we do. Helping our clients transform the lives of senior residents, students, faculty, staff members or guests is why it matters.

RLPS Architects is a planning, interior design and architecture firm based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with a team of professionals that works with clients nationwide.

COVID-19 Resources
For our clients who are interested, we would be happy to review COVID-19 Design Considerations with your team. These checklists or...
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Memory Support
The built environment plays a key role in the care of people living with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A carefully...
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Wellness
Wellness means different things to different people. It now extends beyond physical fitness to include emotional, spiritual, intellectual...
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Hybrid Homes
Hybrid homes are a new senior housing model that allow providers to incrementally add independent living with more flexible financing...
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IQ Homes
The “IQ Home” is a smart home housing model designed from the inside out to support independence, confidence and an active lifestyle...
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Congratulations Jacie Prasnikar!
October 13, 2021
Congratulations to RLPSer Jacie Prasnikar! Jacie recently completed her Architectural Registration Exams. To celebrate, we continued with our tradition of having each partner cut a piece of Jacie's.…
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Avoiding a Surfside, Florida Type Disaster
September 16, 2021
The following article appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer (with edits) on July 7, 2021. It seems trite to call the collapse of the Champlain Tower South building in Surfside, Florida tragic, yet…
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Ephrata Area School District: High School / Middle School Bids on Budget
July 21, 2021
Despite a volatile bidding environment for a public project with multiple primes and work split between two District buildings, the Ephrata Area School District High School / Middle School bids…
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Reinvention
Reinvention provides creative design solutions for good stewardship, while breathing new life into an existing community. As we look to the future...
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Ready to be inspired?

We not only create vibrant, resident, student and employee-centered spaces. RLPS also provides an engaging experience for our clients and their stakeholder groups.

Founded in 1954, RLPS collaborates with our clients to provide purposeful planning and creative architectural and interior design strategies for senior living spaces, K-12 schools, colleges, universities and local offices, healthcare and hospitality venues.

RLPS is an architecture firm that listens first

Our architectural consulting and interior design team is ready to collaborate with you. We start by listening to your vision, brand, and values. Then we create authentically responsive design solutions that go beyond square-foot style programming to reach the heart and soul of the people you serve.