Cyrus Dahmubed
Associate, Director of Research
Utile, Inc.
Cyrus P. Dahmubed is an Associate and the Director of Research at Utile, a Boston-based design firm. A lifelong Bostonian, Cyrus received his Master of Architecture from Northeastern University, and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal for Service, Leadership, and Merit. At Northeastern, he served as the President of the school’s chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), the founding editor and curator of the colloquium series and publication Common Ground, and in several service and teaching positions. He was the Editor-in-Chief of CRIT, the national journal of the AIAS. His undergraduate studies at Harvard focused on historic patterns of urban form development, with a special focus on Boston.
Cyrus’s work focuses on how the built environment can be a platform for a more just, equitable, and liberated world, including research into frameworks for spatial inclusivity informed by queer spaces and outdoor and WFH spaces in multifamily residential projects. Since 2020, he has worked with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute to design their new Center for Healing, Teaching, and Learning in Dorchester.
Since 2020, Cyrus has led Utile’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative, channeling the office’s efforts into action-oriented tools for inclusive design. He is part of the Out in Design organizing team for queer design professionals in Boston, and serves on the Boston Society of Architects’ Ethics Committee and the Placemaking Knowledge Community as co-chair. He was the inaugural recipient of BosNOMA’s 2024 President’s Award and has presented at NOMA and AIA national conferences. In 2020 he joined the Boston Children’s Chorus’s Board and has been the Governance Committee Chair since 2021. He served on NCARB’s 2021 Licensure Candidates Think Tank and has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, and MassArt, and participates in juries and guest presentations around the region.
Cyrus’s work focuses on how the built environment can be a platform for a more just, equitable, and liberated world, including research into frameworks for spatial inclusivity informed by queer spaces and outdoor and WFH spaces in multifamily residential projects. Since 2020, he has worked with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute to design their new Center for Healing, Teaching, and Learning in Dorchester.
Since 2020, Cyrus has led Utile’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative, channeling the office’s efforts into action-oriented tools for inclusive design. He is part of the Out in Design organizing team for queer design professionals in Boston, and serves on the Boston Society of Architects’ Ethics Committee and the Placemaking Knowledge Community as co-chair. He was the inaugural recipient of BosNOMA’s 2024 President’s Award and has presented at NOMA and AIA national conferences. In 2020 he joined the Boston Children’s Chorus’s Board and has been the Governance Committee Chair since 2021. He served on NCARB’s 2021 Licensure Candidates Think Tank and has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, and MassArt, and participates in juries and guest presentations around the region.