Jon Lott

Associate Professor of Architecture

Contact

• [email protected]
• 617-998-1609

Office Location

Gund 207a

Websitewww.para-project.org/about/

• Architecture

Jon Lott is an architect, founding principal of Para Project, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. From 2017-2020, he served as Director of the Master of Architecture program.

Para Project’s work engages questions of proximity, scale, use, and constructibility. The practice has been named a finalist for the Emerging Architecture Award from The Architecture Review at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon and recognized by Domus as one of the 50 best architecture firms worldwide advancing the discipline. 

Lott is the recipient of the Architectural League Prize and the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, and the Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record. He has also been twice named a finalist for the Young Architects Program at the Museum of Modern Art and received the New Practices New York Award from the American Institute of Architects.

His work is widely published. His first authored monograph, Proximities, was published by Park Books in 2026. His work also appears in edited volumes on contemporary architecture including 44-Low-Resolution Houses (Princeton University School of Architecture), Inscriptions (Harvard University Press), American City X (Princeton Architectural Press), and How Architecture Learned to Speculate(University of Stuttgart), as well as in journals and periodicals such as a+u, Domus, Harvard Design Magazine, Log, The Los Angeles Times, Metropolis, New York Magazine, Surface, The Wall Street Journal, and 306090, among others. 

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, and has received multiple A+ Awards, AIA Awards, and Progressive Architecture Awards.

Lott has served as a project editor for PRAXIS: Journal of Writing + Building and as an invited juror at Princeton, MIT, Rice, Yale, Columbia, the Cooper Union, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and the University of Toronto. He previously taught at Syracuse University, where he directed the School of Architecture’s New York City Program. 

He received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is an NCARB-certified architect and is licensed in New York, California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts