Robert Hutchison

Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison is Principal of the Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize, two Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowships, the 2009 Emerging Voices, and residencies at MacDowell and Loghaven.

At Bogliasco, Robert will be completing the final draft of his publication Memory Landscapes, which will be published by Zurich-based Park Books. The project explores the power of collective memory in designing for new futures following natural disaster. Focusing on eastern coastal Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the book will combine his own photographs and architectural proposals with interviews and contributions from Japanese architects and artists.