Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and a BS degree in Structural Engineering and a BS degree in Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. From 1996 to 2001, he was a Project Architect and Project
Manager at The Miller/Hull Partnership. In 2001, Hutchison formed the Seattle-based architectural firm Hutchison & Maul Architecture in collaboration with his friend and colleague Tom Maul. In 2013, Hutchison established the architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture. Honors and awards include the 2016 - 2017 Rome Prize in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome, the 2010 Creative Artists Fellowship awarded by the Japan-US Friendship Commission & National Endowment for the Arts, the 2009 Emerging Voices awarded by the Architectural League of NY, a 2008 AIA Honor Award for Washington Architecture for the installation project 7, and one of fifteen individuals to be selected as a 2013-2014 On the Boards Ambassador. Hutchison is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. For the last five years Hutchison has served as Program Director and Lead Instructor for the Architecture in Mexico Studios, based in Mexico City. He has also taught design studios on a periodic basis for Washington State University’s College of Architecture & Construction Management. Hutchison is an Advisory Board Member for the independent non-profit architectural organization Space.City, and served six years (two terms) as a Public Art Advisory Committee member for King County's 4Culture’s Public Arts Advisory Committee.
