Abacus Architects and Planners, Boston Spring 2024 Teaching Firm in Residence

David Eisen, FAIA and David Pollak, AIA of Abacus Architects and Planners, Boston are serving as a Spring 2024 Architecture Teaching Firm in Residence, teaching a Graduate Architectural Design Studio. The firm focuses on multi-family housing, community centers, libraries and worship, commercial and residences, and master planning, and has won numerous national, regional and local awards for design excellence, accessibility, design for aging, multi-family house from the American Institute of Architects, US Housing and Urban Development (HUD), American Planning Association. Their work demonstrates that limited budgets can be leveraged to achieve design excellence. Abacus states that “ Our work emphasizes innovative design, sensitivity to context, cost-effective construction and sustainability. From large urban spaces down to the smallest detail we use light, form, and space to create joyful places for people to inhabit. 

It is great to have David Eisen and David Pollak back at the school this semester, after each taught here in the 1990’s and early 2000’s.