Timothy Hyde is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  He teaches design studio and courses in architectural history and theory, and is Thesis Director for the Master of Architecture degree.

Hyde’s scholarship addresses issues of modern architecture and culture in the postwar period with a particular attention to the intersections and transpositions between disciplines.  His current research focuses on concepts of artifice in architectural, literary, legal, and cultural theory in the late twentieth century.  He is also continuing an extended study of entanglements between architecture and law.  This work includes his doctoral dissertation, in which he explored the relation between architecture and constitutional jurisprudence in pre-Revolutionary Cuba, and his essay “Some Evidence of Libel, Criticism, and Publicity in the Architectural Career of Sir John Soane,” published in Perspecta, which pursued connections between eighteenth-century English libel law and the life and work of Sir John Soane.  Hyde’s other writings on mid-century modern architecture include a précis of the work of John Johansen for the exhibition catalog Beyond the Harvard Box, and a genealogy of mat-building published in Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival.

Hyde is a registered architect, and has practiced in New York, Cambridge, and Ho Chi Mihn City, and previously taught design studio and architectural history at Northeastern University.  In 2005, he was a recipient of a Frederick Sheldon Fellowship from Harvard University; in 2007, he was recognized by the Student Forum as GSD Teacher of the Year.  Hyde received his BA from Yale University, MArch from Princeton University, and PhD from Harvard University.