Jon Lott

Associate Professor of Architecture

Contact Office Location

Gund 207a

Websitewww.para-project.org/about/

Jon Lott is principal of PARA-Project, PC. and co-founder of the Collective-LOK.

He is recipient of the Design Vanguard award (by Architectural Record), the New Practices New York award (by the American Institute of Architects), the Architectural League Prize (by the Architectural League of New York), a MoMA/PS1 Young Architects finalist, and has taught at Syracuse University, directing the School of Architecture’s New York City Program.

Lott’s recent and current work includes: Syracuse University’s School of Education Commons, the Haffenden House – a writing studio for two poets, and the Van Alen Institute in New York City, with Collective-LOK. The work has been published in the New York Times, the LA Times, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Domus, the Architect’s Newspaper, a+u, Form, Azure, and many others. He is a Leopold Schepp and John E. Thayer Scholar, has been a project editor for PRAXIS: Journal of Writing + Building, and an invited juror at Harvard, Princeton, Rice, Yale, Columbia, MIT, UPenn, Cornell, Toronto, and the Architectural League of New York.

He holds the Master of Architecture with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, and is an NCARB-certified architect, with licensure in New York and California.

Courses

ADV-9203
Thesis project / Project Thesis
John May, Elisa Iturbe, Jon Lott
Spring 2026
Lecture
4 Units
STU-1102
Second Semester Architecture Core: SITUATE
Jeffry Burchard, Elle Gerdeman, Elisa Iturbe, Cara Liberatore, Jon Lott, John May, Khoa Vu
Spring 2026
Core Studio
8 Units
DES-3459
Fall 2024
Project-based Seminar
4 Units
STU-1201
Third Semester Architecture Core: INTEGRATE
Eric Höweler, Michelle Chang, Adam Frampton, Elle Gerdeman, Jon Lott, John May, Angela Pang, Hanif Kara
Fall 2024
Core Studio
8 Units

Projects