Profile
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Founding Principal, MY Architecture
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Architecture, Drexel University
BIO
Michael Ytterberg, PhD, ARA, LEED AP, is the Founding Principal of MY Architecture in Philadelphia, an architecture, interiors and planning firm specializing in mixed-use urban development. MY Architecture continues the work of the studio he led during the nearly 20 years he was Design Principal and multi-family practice leader at BLT Architects in Philadelphia. For over 35 years he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Architecture at Drexel University. Building on the study of human movement at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and years of work with developer clients building the city of Philadelphia, Michael has been successful in bridging academic discipline and the business of real estate development.
PH.D. DISSERTATION
The Perambulations of Hadrian: A Walk Through Hadrian's Villa
RECENT ARTICLES
- "La Promenade Architecturale: Le Corbusier, Hadrian's Villa and the Digital World," (In)Tangible Heritage(s), A Conference on Design, Culture and Technology - past, present and future, AMPS Proceedings Series 29.2, 2022, pp. 466-482
- “The Grid and the Labyrinth: From Ancient Rome to Modern Architecture," Architext, Vol 7, 2019, pp.26-45
- “Alberti’s Sant’ Andrea and the Etruscan Proportion,” Nexus VII: Architecture and Mathematics, Kim Williams, ed., Turin: Kim Williams Books, 2008, pp. 201-216
- “Stylistic Trends in Multifamily Housing: Being Modern Means Always Having a Choice,” Wharton Real Estate Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2008, pp. 80-90
