Amir Kripper
Design Critic in Architecture
Visiting Faculty
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Amir Kripper is a Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he teaches the Core IV Architecture Studio. His teaching and research focus on prefabrication, adaptive reuse, and contemporary construction systems, with an emphasis on the integration of building technologies, material strategies, and architectural form.
Amir’s academic work examines the role of prefabricated and industrialized building systems in the transformation of existing structures and urban environments. His studios and research position reuse as a critical design methodology, addressing questions of material economy, structural intervention, and environmental performance within contemporary architectural practice. He has previously taught architecture design studios at Northeastern University.
Amir is the founder and principal of Kripper Studio, a research-driven architecture practice engaged in projects that bridge design, building technology, and urban transformation. Notable work includes the Sears Crescent Building in Boston, an adaptive reuse project within a historic commercial structure that reflects the studio’s focus on strategic intervention and contemporary construction within existing urban fabric. His work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, contributing to a broader disciplinary discourse at the intersection of architecture, research, and exhibition-based practice.
Prior to establishing Kripper Studio, Amir was a Senior Designer at Machado and Silvetti in Boston and at Polshek Partnership in New York. He is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and New York. Raised in Uruguay, Amir received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York.