Dan Hisel Design

Dan Hisel was recently named a 2005 winner in the Young Architects Forum, sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. Hisel’s Heavy/Light House project won a Progressive Architecture Award Citation and a Boston Society of Architects award for unbuilt architecture (both 2003). He also won a Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship in 1992.

Hisel’s design work has been published in Architecture, Dwell, Architecture Boston, Assemblage 32, and other publications including a forthcoming book by Amy Thomas and Amanda Lam entitled Convertible Houses to be published in 2007 by Gibbs-Smith. Hisel has exhibited his work at the University of Kentucky, and in New York City at the Van Alan Institute.

Hisel’s academic research into the history and theory of architecture and camouflage has led him to write and publish papers on the Douglas Aircraft Facility in Santa Monica, California which was extensively camouflaged during World War II by Hollywood scenographers. This work was presented at the National ACSA Conference in 2002, and is published in that organization’s Proceedings.

Hisel is an Adjunct Faculty member at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island where he teaches design. Hisel was on the design faculty of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in the Spring of 2006. He has taught previously at Syracuse University, Catholic University, and Iowa State University and served on reviews at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University.

Recent events include an exhibition and lecture as part of the 2005 Young Architect’s Forum at the Architectural League in May of 2005. Work of the winning firms will be published in the forthcoming book Young Architects 7: Situating, due out in May 2006 from Princeton Architectural Press .