Connor Gravelle

Connor Gravelle is a licensed architect and researcher whose work examines the material, social, and ecological entanglements of architecture with its contexts. His design work focuses on the building as a site of profound contingency, where disciplinary abstraction meets physical reality. In both their construction and inhabited afterlives, Connor argues, buildings bind architecture to pressing questions of climate and equity at a moment of both historic challenge and opportunity.

Originally from Massachusetts, Connor has held research positions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and exhibited work at the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles (2017, 2019–20) and at Harvard GSD (2024–25). He has contributed writing to publications from PLAT Journal 8.5 (2020), Archinect (2018–19), and Chung-Ang University’s Institute of Cultural Diversity content (2021). His professional training includes work at Handel Architects and HWKN in New York, BCHO Architects Associates in Seoul, and several offices in Los Angeles and London.

Connor holds an M.Arch. II with distinction from Harvard GSD, where he was awarded the Gerald M. McCue Medal and the James Templeton Kelley Prize. He earned his B.Arch. degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he received the AIA Henry Adams Medal, the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, and the Blythe and Thom Mayne Undergraduate Thesis Prize.

Classes (Selected)

• ARCH 1101 Design I: Geologies of Making

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

• James Templeton Kelley Prize, Harvard GSD, 2025
• Gerald M. McCue Medal, Harvard GSD, 2025
• Blythe and Thom Mayne Undergraduate Thesis Prize, SCI-Arc, 2017
• AIA Henry Adams Medal, SCI-Arc, 2017
• Alpha Rho Chi Medal, SCI-Arc, 2017

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

• Dean's Wall Exhibition, Harvard GSD, 2025.
• “Impermanent Collection”, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, 2019.
• “architecture, Architecture, Architectural”, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, 2017.

Publications (Selected)

• Gravelle, Connor. “Productive Ambiguities: Contemporary Notions of Identity in the Work of Byoungsoo Cho.” In Broad Horizons and Distant Shores: The Roaring Currents of Multi-Culturalism. Chung-Ang University, Institute of Cultural Diversity content, Seoul, South Korea, 2021: 102–144.
• Gravelle, Connor. “Architectures of Non-Disruption.” Plat Journal 8.5, 2020.
• Gravelle, Connor. “Cross-Talk #6: Connor Gravelle on East vs West.” Archinect, 2018.