Emmett Zeifman

Design Critic in Architecture

Emmett Zeifman is a Canadian designer based between Lisbon and Boston, where he is a design critic at the Harvard GSD. He was formerly a principal of Medium Office and a founding editor of Project: A Journal of Architecture. He has taught graduate and undergraduate design studios and visual studies seminars at Columbia GSAPP, SCI-Arc and the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, where he was the 2013-14 Yale Bass Scholar in Architecture, an M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture, and an Honors B.A. in English literature from McGill University. His work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and has been exhibited and published widely, including at the A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, Storefront for Art and Architecture and Yale School of Architecture, as well as in ArchinectArchitect, The Los Angeles Times, Log, Metropolis, Offramp and elsewhere.