Elizabeth Whittaker
Founder + Principal
Merge Architects, Inc
Elizabeth Whittaker, AIA is the founder and principal of Merge Architects located in Boston, MA. She established the firm in 2003 with the aims of developing contemporary craft, reinterpreting typologies, and shaping the social ecology of place. Her design leadership and management has fostered a diverse collective in which voices and skill sets merge to produce consistently-creative and award-winning architecture.
She has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on this work. It has also been published widely including in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard issue, which named Merge a top ten global practice. Elizabeth is recipient of the AIA Young Architects Award, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award, and Architectural Record’s 2017 Next Generation Leader – recognizing one female architect in the country each year. She was also recently nominated for election to the AIA College of Fellows, the American Institute of Architects’ highest honor for contributions to the profession and society.
Elizabeth currently teaches at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
as an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture, with a focus on
housing and social ecology.
She has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on this work. It has also been published widely including in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard issue, which named Merge a top ten global practice. Elizabeth is recipient of the AIA Young Architects Award, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award, and Architectural Record’s 2017 Next Generation Leader – recognizing one female architect in the country each year. She was also recently nominated for election to the AIA College of Fellows, the American Institute of Architects’ highest honor for contributions to the profession and society.
Elizabeth currently teaches at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
as an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture, with a focus on
housing and social ecology.