Hiroshi Jacobs is currently a studio critic with the Catholic University School of Architecture and Planning in Washington, DC. He is a recent graduate of the Master in Design Studies (MDesS) program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). During his time as a graduate student at the GSD he taught numerous workshops in digital technologies, and also served as an Adjunct Lecturer with the Tulane School of Architecture, where he taught courses in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and computational design. Upon graduation from the GSD he taught an architecture design studio in the Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program.

Hiroshi’s design work has won several awards, including Works In Progress and the Leonard Kagan Design and Travel Fellowship, and has also appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications, including A+U, ArchDaily, Studioplex, and GSD Platform.

Hiroshi’s thesis project at the GSD, for which he received the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology and Sustainability, engaged the issue of topologically unstable surface patterning within associative modeling environments. His other academic projects have engaged intellectually and critically with design through the medium of design itself. Among them, a critical installation project completed with Rocker-Lange Architects and exhibited at the 2010 Venice Biennale; and a computational fabrication project realized through sculpture and exhibited at the Harvard Arts First Festival.

As an undergraduate student at Tulane University, Hiroshi founded the website RevitCity.com, which is now the largest online community of Revit users in the world with nearly a quarter-million members. Professionally, Hiroshi has facilitated the use of BIM technology on more than 100 design projects; and in his capacity as Applications Administrator at RTKL, he consulted with the U.S. Department of State Overseas Building Operations on various BIM integration research projects.