Webinar Title: What Design and Designers Can Do

Hosted by: What Design Can Do

Speaker: Milton Shinberg, AIA

Date & Time: Saturday, November 15, 2025

6:00 - 7:30 PM CET / 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST / 9:00 - 10:30 AM PST

What Design and Designers Can Do

Milton Shinberg, AIA, will share insights and unconventional approaches for architects to help their designs resonate with people’s deep needs for human and humane spaces and places.

Insights from the human sciences, including neuroscience and psychology, will illustrate how architectural practice can leverage new knowledge for the benefit of clients, stakeholders, and the public at large.

Milton Shinberg, AIA

Milton Shinberg is a veteran Washington architect who has served as an adjunct professor in the School of Architecture & Planning for nearly 50 years.  Many of his school and religious projects with Shinberg Levinas Architects, created in partnership with Salo Levinas, have been published locally, nationally and internationally.

At Catholic University’s School of Architecture & Planning, he has taught all the studio levels, both undergraduate and graduate, along with initiating special courses on design, drawing, and technology. His popular seminar, Beauty & Brains, began in 2004, including an emphasis on the all the senses, and drawing.

Shinberg was given the Architect Teacher Award by the Washington Architectural Foundation in 2021 and the Part-Time Teacher Excellence Award by Catholic University in 2023.

His new book, People-Centered Architecture: Design, Practice Education, from Wiley, looks into ways the sciences of people can be successfully integrated into design-thinking and practice. It also investigates how architects can harvest architectural wisdom from non-architects.

In addition to his work as an architect, Shinberg’s watercolors and photographs have been featured in group and solo shows.