Dean Sommer is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Levit, Associate Professor of Architecture, as Director of the Master of Architecture Program at the Daniels Faculty for a period of three-years, effective July 1, 2013.  

Robert Levit is a partner in the award-winning design firm Khoury Levit Fong. Recent honors at KLF include a first place prize for the Glow Competition to light Copley Square in Boston, and winning the competition to build the Changzhi Planning Exhibition Hall. Professor Levit is also a noted author and architecture critic. His recent essays on ornament, geometry, and the rhetoric of sustainability in contemporary architecture, among other topics, have garnered much critical attention. Professor Levit is currently developing a book on the intersection of political thought and contemporary design called Mass Individualism: The Form of the Multitude. Before joining the Daniels Faculty in 2002, he taught at the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Professor Levit received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a BA in Architecture from Columbia University. He has worked in the offices of Alvaro Siza in Oporto and Moule and Polyzoides in Los Angeles.