Luben Dimcheff

Luben Dimcheff is the coauthor of Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture (Routledge, 2017). He is the principal of his creative consulting practice based in New York. Previously, he was founding partner of Dimcheff Smith Architecture and a senior associate at Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, where projects included the SMH house at the much-acclaimed development Houses at Sagaponac, and the Hospital for Special Surgery building on Manhattan’s waterfront, which received awards from Mayor Bloomberg and the NYC Design Commission.

As principal at Luben Dimcheff Studio, he oversees design work built internationally, including in Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai, with current residential and commercial projects in New York City, Cayuga Heights, NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Karachi. In addition to his practice, Dimcheff is dedicated to academic work and has lectured on design pedagogy, design empathy, and cultivated intuition at the 2017 ACSA National Conference at Marfa, Texas, and at the 2019 International ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, hosted by the University of Antwerp in Belgium. More recently, Dimcheff conducted a workshop on scale and detail at the American University of Sharjah and lectured at Polit(t)ico at the Università di Pisa, where he was a visiting fellow in spring 2022.