Carl D’Apolito-Dworkin
Design Critic in Architecture
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Carl D’Apolito-Dworkin is associate partner and project architect at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., where he has been the project lead and co-lead designer of many large public buildings. His built projects include the Temple Beth Shalom Synagogue in Overland Park, Kansas (2024), the Anhui Province Museum of Science and Technology (2023), the Renovation of Temple Beth El in Springfield, MA (2019), the Xining City Center (2019), the Heifei International School (2019) and the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan (2016). He was co-lead designer for the firm’s project in the Venice Biennale American (2016)
Carl’s research investigates translations between matter and mathematical models to transform each. He aligns dual modes of investigating material, ways of making, environmental conditions and processes of change to predict, guide and negotiate indeterminacy in construction. He has focused on the standardization of facade components in different fabrication systems, constraint modeling to preserve flexibility late into project delivery, simulation of airflow, developable approximation of complex form, and interactions between the social geometries of site-lines, acoustics, accessibility and ritual.
Carl received his M. Arch from the GSD where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University where he received the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts. Carl has taught as a Design Critic at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, a part-time Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and a part-time Lecturer at Northeastern’s College of Art Media and Design.