Joel McCullough

Joel McCullough is an architect, educator, researcher and the founder of JMcC Office, a practice dedicated to reinterpreting the strangeness and delight of the everyday to foster new ways of living, working and gathering. He is a registered architect in Pennsylvania and New York and previously practiced as a Project Architect with MOS in New York City, leading local and international projects spanning furniture, exhibitions, housing, renovations and art spaces.

Joel holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with honors, and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation). At GSAPP, he was awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize for design excellence and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize. Joel has taught at Columbia GSAPP and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), lectured at Columbia GSAPP and with the New York Review of Architecture and citygroup, and served as a guest critic at Columbia, Syracuse University and Carnegie Mellon. His work has been exhibited at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and at citygroup in New York City.