Robert Hutchison
Affiliate Professor
Robert Hutchison is a practicing architect with over thirty years of professional experience and over twenty years of teaching experience. His practice has two complementary sides, each informing the other: the practical, constructed architectural work, and artistic investigations realized through theoretical research and architectural installations. He founded his Seattle-based firm Robert Hutchison Architecture in 2013 with the goal of exploring the boundaries of architecture, providing the opportunity to engage pragmatic and conceptual aspects of architecture from more artistic and experimental entry points. At the core of all his work lies an interest in drawing as a creative process, and spatial narrative as a construct.
Teaching has always served as an important aspect of Hutchison’s practice, providing a venue to simultaneously consider both the pragmatic and conceptual aspects of architectural discipline. He has taught design studios for the University of Washington Department of Architecture since 2001 and was recently elevated to Affiliate Professor. In 2025 he was honored to serve as the 2025 Gensler Visiting Critic at Cornell AAP.
Hutchison holds undergraduate degrees in Civil and Architectural Engineering (Drexel University, 1990), and a graduate degree in Architecture (University of Washington, 1996). His work and practice have been honored through several awards, including a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (2017), the Emerging Voices awarded by The Architectural League of NY (2009), two Japan/US Creative Artists Fellowships (2010 & 2023), residencies at MacDowell (2022), Loghaven (2024), and Bogliasco (2025), and numerous design awards.