Kelly Hutzell
Bio
Kelly J. Hutzell, an urban designer and educator, serves as an Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Having worked as Director of the New Jersey School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology and as an Associate Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in both Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Doha, Qatar, she has nearly twenty years of teaching and academic program development at polytechnic institutions.
Her teaching, research and practice focus on a range of contemporary urban design issues: innovative mapping of cultural, economic, and environmental transformations; the creation of sustainable design guidelines for large-scale projects; and the development of digital architectural guidebooks. Her research on Pittsburgh’s urban renewal was featured in an exhibition at the Heinz Architectural Center entitled Imagining the Modern, and she contributed an essay to the book of the same name. Her work documenting Doha’s urban transformation has been published in Al Manakh: Gulf Continued, and in AD Magazine.
Her academic career has been bolstered by more than a decade of practice, including at Machado and Silvetti Associates and OverUnder in Boston focused on the design of public buildings and spaces in the Middle East and the U.S. Kelly received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Roger Williams University and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design degree from Columbia University.
Research Interests
Kelly J. Hutzell, AIA
Education
Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University, 2001
Bachelor of Architecture, Roger Williams University, 1996
Administrative Experience
Director of the Graduate Program, School of Architecture & Design, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 2015 – present
Interim Chair, Department of Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technology, spring 2018
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 2015 – present
Associate Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh & Doha, 2011 – 2015
Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh & Doha, 2008 – 2011
Lucien and Rita Caste Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005 – 2008
Selected Professional Experience
Senior Associate, OverUnder, Boston, MA, 2005 – 2015
Senior Designer, Machado and Silvetti Associates, Boston, MA, 2003 – 2005
Licenses / Registration
Licensed Architect, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA | License No. 20686
Registered Architect, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, USA | Certification No. 77799
Selected Grants & Awards
AIA Pittsburgh, Award of Excellence 2014 & AIA Pennsylvania Honor Award 2015, Pittsburgh Projects app (now Jaunt Pittsburgh)
Boston Society of Architects Honor Award, 2013, Unbuilt Category, Mayan Museum of America w/OverUnder
Selected Publications
Scenes and Speculations from an Emerging City: Doha, Qatar (manuscript in progress).
“Is Fill Fake?” Real and Fake in Architecture: Close to the Original, Far from Authenticity?, ed. Anne Catrin Schultz. Fellbach: Edition Axel Menges, September 2020.
“Pittsburgh’s Plans: Triumphs and Tribulations of Urban Renewal.” Imagining the Modern: Architecture and Urbanism of the Pittsburgh Renaissance, ed. Rami el Samahy, Chris Grimley and Michael Kubo. New York: The Monacelli Press,
28 May 2019.
UAE and the Gulf, Architectural Design (AD), ed. George Katodrytis and Kevin Mitchell. London: John Wiley & Sons, February 2015.
“In Search of Doha’s Public Realm.” Urban Pamphleteer #4: Heritage and Renewal in Doha, ed. Clare Melhuish, Ben Campkin and Rebecca Ross. London: University College London Urban Laboratory, November 2014.
“Closing the Gap: Doha’s Mega-projects.” Volume #23 - Al Manakh: Gulf Continued, ed. AMO, Archis, Pink Tank, NAi. Amsterdam: Stichting Archis, 2010.