Ian
Biography
Ian is a Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the GSD and Harvard College Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Ian is a design principal at the design-build company Type Five Inc., as well as partner and cofounder of speculative architecture collaborative i.e. studio. He has previously practiced with Barkow Leibinger, Certain Measures, Höweler + Yoon, Lundberg Design, Jensen Architects, and Shubin Donaldson.
Ian has taught architecture, urbanism, and representation courses at the Rhode Island School of Design as well as Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design. Ian was also a 2020-2021 Irving Innovation Fellow, Curriculum Development Fellow and Lead Instructor for the GSD’s inaugural Design Discovery Virtual program, and Lead Research Associate for the GSD’s Early Design Education department. He has been an invited critic at UC Berkeley, Harvard GSD, MIT, RISD, SCI-Arc, Kent State University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University.
Ian studied architecture at the GSD where he received a M. Arch I AP with Distinction, the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize, and the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design where he was awarded the Departmental Citation.
Ian’s writing and design work has been published in OBL/QUE, Platform 11, and Platform 12. His independent work and collaborations have been exhibited at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (with Höweler + Yoon), and the Centre Pompidou (with Certain Measures). He was runner-up for the Boston Society for Architecture’s 2022 Rotch Traveling Scholarship and finalist for the 2023 Rotch Traveling Scholarship.