Tony Atkin

Biography

B.A., University of Utah
M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Teaches graduate studios and seminars. Work of his students who recently participated in urban design studios based in Beijing is being published in World Architecture. Visiting critic at Columbia, Tulane, Yale, Princeton, Maryland and other universities. Twice recipient of Progressive Architecture Citation for Design.

Principal, Atkin, Olsin, Lawson-Bell and Associates, Philadelphia, whose firm has recently received commissions for a dormitory at Dartmouth College, an art and archeology museum for Wesleyan University and a new master plan for the University of Pennsylvania Museum in association with David Chipperfield of London. The firm's design of the Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia has won an urban design award from the Urban Land Institute.

Finalist for Brooklyn Museum Master Plan Competition. Co-editor with Joseph Rykwert of the publication Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements.

Projects include: Addition to the RISD Museum, Fine and Performing Arts Center for Deerfield Academy; The Renfrew Center; Chapel for the Cathedral of Christ the King, Ontario; and numerous residential buildings.