Kurt Hunker

Kurt Hunker, FAIA is Chief Design Officer at Davy Architecture in San Diego, California. In this role he is involved in all aspects of practice leadership, from firm-wide design direction to business and project development to staff mentorship. He has worked on projects across the United States at all scales and in a wide range of typologies. Many have received design awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and other organizations and have been published in state,regional and national periodicals. He is a licensed architect in California and an NCARB certificate holder.

Hunker is Professor Emeritus of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design, where he also served as Graduate Program Chair, Dean and Provost in his 32 years of award-winning teaching. Numerous former students have gone on to achieve professional and academic success in their own right. In 2013 he was elevated to Fellowship in the AIA for his contributions to architectural education. Currently Hunker is a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, a world-wide advocacy group for the promotion and application of brain research towards improving architectural design.

Kurt Hunker has been a guest lecturer for local and regional organizations, and has presented papers at international conferences in Los Angeles, London, Vienna, Moscow and Jyvaskyla,Finland, among others. Topics have ranged from the literature of architectural criticism to the phenomenon of "spectacle" in contemporary high-rise building to the work of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. He received a Master of Architecture degree with Faculty Commendation from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and a B.S. in Architecture from the Ohio State University.