Faculty :: Richard M. Griswold, Jr.

Richard Griswold
Associate Provost for Student Development & Design Instructor
B.A., Bennington College, 1988
M.Arch, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1994
Alpha Rho Chi medal recipient

Richard Griswold, Associate Provost for Student Development and Design Instructor at the Boston Architectural College, holds an M.Arch. from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. from Bennington College, and is an Alpha Rho Chi medal recipient. He has taught studios, visual studies courses, historic preservation, and history/theory workshops, and has also been a thesis advisor and Lead Lecturer for the BAC’s Summer Academy high school program. His lecture course, Design Principles, is a threshold into design thinking for all BAC undergraduates. He is the faculty sponsor of the American Institute of Architecture Students and Studio Q, the college's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender student organization, and he is the Faculty Representative to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

(Watercolor, by Richard Griswold)

In spring 2006, Rich presented a paper entitled “Intersections at the Beginning: the Choreography of Learners at a Practice-Based Design School” at the Beginning Design Conference at the University of Iowa. In spring 2008, he taught "BAC-FH2O", a course focused on Frank Lloyd Wright’s life, work, and creative process, which included a five-day stay at Fallingwater. This led to “Historic Houses as Learning Laboratories,” a presentation at the 2008 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy conference with Cara Armstrong, Curator of Education at Fallingwater. Rich has just returned from directing his eighth summer travel program to Europe with Jovi Cruces, Senior Associate at Dimella Shaffer Associates.

Rich has also taught at Bennington College, Harvard University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. For the past 13 years, he has worked as a design consultant for Elliott Associates Architects in Belmont, Mass. During the winter of 2008/9 he was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in Architecture and was also awarded the Ed Toomey Award for Student Advocacy for his progressive vision for the school and his commitment to both teaching and student development.