BLAKE MITCHELL NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT:

After serving as an Adjunct Professor with our school this past academic year, Blake Mitchell will begin work this fall as an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture. Blake joins the faculty after having received a Master in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he specialized in Architecture, Landscape, and Urban History and Theory. Blake received his Bachelor of Architecture from Oklahoma State University.

He is a recipient of the Harvard Irving Innovation Fellowship, where he researched teaching methods developed in architecture schools during the pandemic and how architectural digital media courses can be optimized to better engage diverse cohorts of students. At the completion of his B Arch studies, Blake received the Caudill Fellowship from Oklahoma State University. His research travels took him to South America to study architectural practices that work at the edge of traditional architectural practice.

Blake worked professionally at Pelli Clarke Pelli in New Haven, Connecticut, and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At these practices, Blake worked on various project types; high-rise residential, university lab buildings, multifamily residential, and adaptive reuse projects.

Blake has more recently taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston as an Adjunct Professor. At Wentworth, Blake taught studios that introduced construction, technical, and structural logic to second-year students. Blake also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Early Design Education summer program, where he coordinated digital media workshops and assisted first-time teachers with pedagogical strategies.

Blake will be an instructor this summer for the Discover Architecture workshop, the School of Architecture’s summer outreach program for high school students. This program holds a special place for Blake as it is the program that first introduced him to architecture more than a dozen years ago. This fall, Blake will be co-teaching the fifth year Urban Design Studio and the second year Architectural Graphic Communication I course.