Webinar with Milton Shinberg
November 15 2025
Milton Shinberg, AIA, is sharing 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, illustrate how architectural practice can leverage new knowledge for the benefit of clients, stakeholders, and the public at large.
During his talk, Milton refers to ideas he explores in his new book. If you’d like to take a deeper look at those concepts - and see how they connect with the themes of our documentary - we recommend reading:
What Design and Designers Can Do
Speaker’s bio
Milton Shinberg, AIA, 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.
