Willis Pember

Willis began his practice in 1992 following a six-year association with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown where he was a project architect and involved with several internationally recognized projects: the Sainsbury Wing to the National Gallery of Art in London, England, the Philadelphia Philharmonic Hall, the Seattle Art Museum and residential projects throughout the United States. He graduated from Brown University as an undergraduate and pursued a two-year graduate program of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin and received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. Interest in Alpine architecture drew initially from establishing his studio in Aspen, CO at an altitude of 8,000 ft above sea level and was supported by research into the history of the Bauhaus master, Herbert Bayer, and dissemination of European Modernism in the United States. He was named a recipient of the 2011 Arthur A. & Florence G. Fisher Traveling Scholarship to pursue the study of contemporary alpine architecture in the Italy and Switzerland Alps in the fall of 2011. His firm’s work has received over 30 international and domestic design awards recognized by the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects including national design competitions and publication of the firm’s work in numerous professional publications. In addition to practice, Willis has been a guest studio critic at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and the University of Colorado Denver. He taught the Aspen Studio for graduate studies in Architecture from the University of Colorado Denver from 2010-2015 and in 2019 served as traveling studio critic as part of the UCD Landscape and Architecture Studio in Helsinki, Finland. for more information: https://competition.adesignaward.com/designer.php?profile=217320