Taylor Halamka is an architect from Chicago. He has a breadth of experience designing and managing cultural and institutional projects in the US and internationally, ranging from museum expansions and higher education buildings to UNESCO heritage sites and embassy planning. Prior to working with PALMYRA, his professional experience included time as a senior associate at Douglas Works and as an associate at Machado Silvetti in Boston.

Taylor co-taught two options studios at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with Lina Ghotmeh and Mariam Issoufou and has taught introductory design studios at multiple schools. His academic output includes documentation of the Yann Weymouth / I.M. Pei archival collection at the Frances Loeb Library and collaborations on installations at both the Venice Architecture Biennale (DePaor) and Chicago Architecture Biennial (The LADG). His writing has been published in PAX Monographs, PLAT Journal at Rice University, GALT at the University of Waterloo, and drawings he produced were featured in Praxis.

He holds a Master of Architecture I degree with Commendation from Harvard and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he graduated with the school’s top award: the Frederick Widmann Prize for all around excellence in architectural studies.