Peter Testa

Peter Testa is a founding partner and design principal of Testa & Weiser, and Design Faculty of Merit at SCI-Arc. At Testa & Weiser he leads strategy and design for some of the world's most innovative companies. He was previously principal-in-charge with Pritzker Prize laureate Álvaro Siza. He has held professorships at Columbia GSAPP, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; as well as visiting positions at several schools including Harvard GSD. He is currently Design Faculty of Merit...See more

Peter Testa is a founding partner and design principal of Testa & Weiser, and Design Faculty of Merit at SCI-Arc. At Testa & Weiser he leads strategy and design for some of the world's most innovative companies. He was previously principal-in-charge with Pritzker Prize laureate Álvaro Siza. He has held professorships at Columbia GSAPP, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; as well as visiting positions at several schools including Harvard GSD. He is currently Design Faculty of Merit at SCI-Arc. His work is part of public collections including the Canadian Center for Architecture CCA; and exhibited at leading museums worldwide with recent installations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tokyo. In 2016 his firm's Carbon Tower was featured as one of twenty canonical projects of the digital turn in the exhibition 'Archeology of the Digital' at the CCA, and Yale School of Architecture YSOA. Projects and writings are published in international art, architecture, design, and scientific journal as well as major newspapers. His critically acclaimed collection of essays and projects "Robot House," was published by Thames & Hudson in 2017. Testa holds an B.Arch and an S.M.Arch.S (History/Theory/Criticism) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and is a Registered Architect in California. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the MIT Innovation Award, the Architecture Award of the Municipal Art Society of New York, and Design Arts Award of the National Endowment for the Arts. See less