Winka Dubbeldam

Winka Dubbeldam is the founding partner of the WBE firm Archi-Tectonics NYC, LLC [1994], and is widely known for her award-winning work. She was the Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at UPenn for 20 years, and has taught at Columbia, Cornell and Harvard University. She has been the external examiner for the AA [6 years], and at the Bartlett UCL, both in London. She has chaired many design juries, such as the AIANY, Prix de Rome, Plan Magazine, and Boffo, and was named one of Design Intelligence's 30 Most Admired Educators in 2015. Winka was the creative director for the Visual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale [2021-2023] and has lectured worldwide at many symposia and universities. Winka assumed the role of SCI-Arc Director / CEO on September 1, 2025.

Founded in 1994 by Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics NYC, LLC is a research-design studio with offices in New York City, Amsterdam, and Hangzhou. Dubbeldam and Justin Korhammer, partner since 2016, lead a multi-national team of architects, engineers and consultants that work across scales and types. The studio’s design approach is rooted in systems thinking and digital design optimized across all aspects of a project—from parametrics, 3D printing and FTF manufacturing to performance and user experience. This results in non-standard buildings that have character and identity, deriving inspiration from the far past to excel in the global future.

Archi-Tectonics’ work has been exhibited and presented internationally, with exhibits the Venice Biennale [2025, 2023], the AIANY, AEDES Berlin, the Bunker Architecture Museum Munich, and MoMa and MoCa among others. Winka spoke at global forums and climate conferences such as COP Dubai [2023], AIA New York [2024], UIA Copenhagen [2023], CTBUH Singapore, and gave a TED talk in Edinburgh Scotland.

Archi-Tectonics recently won the SARA excellence award for the London Townhouse, the 2023 CTBUH Excellence Award in the Urban Habitat Category for the Asian Games 2023 Masterplan, the Architizer A+ Architecture Innovation Award for the Asian Games Hybrid Stadium [2023], and the AIA Award for the 512GW climate skin & building NYC [2022] to name a few. Archi-Tectonics’ fourth book “Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things” was launched Fall 2021 by Actar, Spain, and the Asian Games Ecopark & buildings were exhibited in Palazzo Bembo at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 and the Venice biennale 2025 Arsenale. A fifth monograph “Monsters & Mutants” will come out Spring 2026 by Park Books Switzerland.

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