Elizabeth Whittaker is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and teaches in the core studio sequence in architecture.

She is the founder and principal of MERGE architects, based in Boston since 2003. She received her Masters in Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her work explores the power of invention through extreme collaboration at multiple scales including multi-family housing, private residential, commercial, institutional, and furniture design. The office works side-by-side with teams of fabricators, artists, craftsmen and engineers to produce an architecture that embraces the art of making within a larger agenda: to re-define the urban and social boundaries in and around the city. The work combines both digital fabrication and the hand made by working through a cross-disciplinary as well as a cross-production process. Many of the projects have been published both nationally and internationally and have received multiple awards including eight AIA/BSA awards, a citation for the international competition for the Harbor Park Pavilion (Boston, MA), as well as just recently receiving Second Place for the new Boston AIA/BSA Headquarters.

Whittaker served as the Director-at-Large on the Boston Society of Architects Board of Directors for two years. She has recently been nominated as a candidate for the National American Institute of Architects Young Architect’s Award and has received numerous awards during her graduate studies at Harvard including the Araldo A. Cossutta / Core Prize, the Faculty Design Award, and the John E. Thayer Award for overall academic achievement. Elizabeth has lectured both nationally and internationally and has taught design studios in several Architecture programs including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural College.

Elizabeth Whittaker is the founder and principal of MERGE architects, based in Boston since 2003. She received her Masters in Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her work explores the power of invention through extreme collaboration at multiple scales including multi-family housing, private residential, commercial, institutional, and furniture design. The office works side-by-side with teams of fabricators, artists, craftsmen and engineers to produce an architecture that embraces the art of making within a larger agenda: to re-define the urban and social boundaries in and around the city. The work combines both digital fabrication and the hand made by working through a cross-disciplinary as well as a cross-production process.

Many of the projects have been published both nationally and internationally and have received multiple awards including eight AIA/BSA awards, as well as just recently receiving Second Place for the new Boston AIA/BSA Headquarters. Elizabeth served as the Director-at-Large on the Boston Society of Architects Board of Directors for two years. She has recently been nominated as a candidate for the National American Institute of Architects Young Architect's Award and has received numerous awards during her graduate studies at Harvard including the Araldo A. Cossutta / Core Prize, the Faculty Design Award, and the John E. Thayer Award for overall academic achievement. Elizabeth has lectured both nationally and internationally and has taught design studios in several Architecture programs including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural College.