Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. His firm Robert Hutchison Architecture balances architectural commissions with research, writing, and installation projects that explore the place of narrative and memory in architecture.
Hutchison received a MArch degree from the University of Washington in 1996, and BS degrees in Structural Engineering and Architectural Engineering from Drexel University in 1990. National recognition of his work includes being named a 2009 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of NY, and being selected as a 2010 Creative Artists Fellowship by the Japan-US Friendship Commission & National Endowment for the Arts. Hutchison is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he has taught architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 2001. For the last five years Hutchison has served as Program Director and Lead Instructor for the Architecture in Mexico Studios, based in Mexico City.