Tommy Schaperkotter

Tommy Schaperkotter is an architect, builder, and educator devoted to transdisciplinary exploration of material cultures, construction ecologies, and interdependencies between built and non-built environments. He works at the confluence of climate urgency, labor equity, and design-build processes. His projects include housing in the United States, rural reforestation in Haiti, earthen construction in Austria, and architectural advocacy for displaced communities in Bangladesh.

Schaperkotter received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and holds a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a co-recipient of the Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize and the AIA / ACSA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Students Award. In addition to Columbia GSAPP, he also holds adjunct teaching positions at the Cooper Union School of Architecture and the Parsons School of Design.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Architecture The University of Virginia School of Architecture (2005 — 2009)
• DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad (2008 — 2008)
• Summer Boarding School TASIS - The American School in Switzerland (2004 — 2004)

Honors

• 2019 AIA / ACSA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Students | National Competition | Partner: Peteris Lazovskis
• 2019 Harvard University Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize | Second Place | Partners: Peteris Lazovskis, Augustinas Indrasius
• 2019 Harvard University Travel Research Grant Recipient | Harvard Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute

Publications

• Book Chapter | "Characterization of Links between Embodied Carbon and Thermal Mass" | Contributing Researcher

• 2021 Carnegie Museum of Art | "The Fabricated Landscape" | Contributing Author, "Civic Without Citizenship

• 2021 Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology | Kiel Moe | Contributing Researcher

• 2018 Harvard University Graduate School of Design | Platform 11 | | Design Work Published and Exhibited