Dr. David Fixler

Biography

David Fixler is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, specializing in architecture with a focus on existing buildings. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s GSAPP and has directed efforts in large firms for the conservation, renewal, and adaptive reuse of significant properties from the 18th to 20th centuries before founding his own practice in spring 2017. Fixler's work has primarily centered on developing critical frameworks and implementation strategies for rehabilitating 20th-century modernism. His built projects include the rehabilitation of Alvar Aalto’s Baker House and Eero Saarinen’s Kresge Auditorium at MIT, as well as Louis Kahn’s Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has engaged in significant rehabilitation and conservation projects for institutional and government clients like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford Universities, including the master plan for the Massachusetts State House. David has lectured and taught worldwide, with publications in trade and scholarly journals. He has contributed to various conferences and has a book titled 'Aalto America,' co-edited with Stanford Anderson and Gail Fenske, published by Yale in 2012. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and plays a leadership role in several global conservation organizations, including co-founding the Technical Committee on Modern Heritage.

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