Dan Hisel Architect is a design studio committed to the enrichment of contemporary life through the poetic articulation of spatial experience. Our design approach to each project emerges from a clear understanding of the life to be lived (the client’s needs, routines, and rituals), the intricacies of the specific site, the creative milieu of our contemporary culture, the urgency of sustainable building practices, and the ever-present constraints of time and money.

Dan Hisel received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and a Masters of Architecture from Yale University. Dan Hisel Design was started in 1996 with the design and construction of the Cadyville Sauna in upstate New York, and became Dan Hisel Architect in 2008. Dan Hisel is a member of the AIA, and is LEED AP accredited. Hisel is currently an Adjunct Faculty member teaching design at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He has taught previously at Roger Williams University, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Syracuse University, Catholic University, and Iowa State University.

Recognition

Hisel was recently named a winner of the Design Biennial Boston, 2010. In 2005 he was a winner of the Young Architects Forum awarded by the Architectural League of New York. His Heavy/Light House project won a Progressive Architecture Award Citation and a Boston Society of Architects award for unbuilt architecture. He also won a Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. Hisel’s design work has been published in Architecture, Dwell, Architecture Boston, Assemblage, Young Architects 7: Situating, Young Americans: New Architecture in the USA, as well as other publications. He has exhibited his work at pinkcomma gallery in Boston, Yale University, the Van Alan Institute in New York, the Urban Center Galleries in New York, and the University of Kentucky.