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Robert Hutchison: [Un]Built | [Sub]Conscious

reflective image of a building in shadow
Rain Harvest Home, Temascaltepec, Mexico. photo / Helene Binet

Lecture

Location

Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Milstein Hall

Contact

Department of Architecture

cuarch@cornell.edu

Abstract

Hutchison will present recent built and conceptual work by his eponymous Seattle-based architectural practice.

This lecture is part of the Gensler Visiting Critic Lecture Series.

Biography

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Robert Hutchison

Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison is Principal of the Seattle-based architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the 2010 and 2021 Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowship, and the 2009 Emerging Voices awarded by The Architectural League of NY, and has been awarded residencies at Bogliasco, Loghaven, and MacDowell. Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and BS de-grees in Structural Engineering and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. Hutchison is the 2025 Cornell AAP Gensler Visiting Critic.

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