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.
Fall 2025 Teaching
This studio introduces students to the fundamentals of architectural design through practices of critical thinking, iterative design methodology, and design agency. Emphasizing form, space and composition, this first-year studio lays the foundation for a rigorous and creative design practice.
Spring 2025 Teaching
This studio introduces integrated architectural design as the synthesis of disparate elements, demands and desires. It situates architecture as a technological, cultural and environmental process that is inherently contingent and entangled yet tethered to a historical project of autonomy.
This course introduces students to contemporary methods of construction and draws attention to the materialization of architectural intent. It foregrounds the historical, technological and conceptual basis of construction systems to understand the building as a process and cultural artifact.