Ralph Richard
Lasater Jr.AIA

(1945– )

Lasater grew up Durham NC and graduated from Southern HS in 1963. He worked with structural engineering firm, Gardner Cline, in Durham. He served in the Navy after high school, working in Oxnard CA. In 1968, he attended Ventura College in Oxnard. He returned to NC and worked for Gardner Cline for a time, then started his own business in Chapel Hill with a landscape design partner, Blakely. Lasater joined Jim Webb and Don Stewart and Bob Anderson and Jim Ford at CPAA in Chapel Hill around 1969. Eventually, Lasater became CEO, growing the firm to be one of the most successful in the state, specializing in residential and retirement developments. He moved the firm to Hillsborough NC and later to Nags Head NC.