Alan Joslin, FAIA

Professional Experience

EPSTEIN JOSLIN ARCHITECTS, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Principal-in-Charge of Design, 2002–2023

Representative Projects (Destinations):

Representative Projects (Dwellings):

WILLIAM RAWN ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS, Boston, MA

Principal in Charge and/or Project Architect/Manager, 1985–2001

Representative Projects:

  • Seiji Ozawa Hall, Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA

  • Music Center at Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony and Montgomery County, Bethesda, MD

  • Koka Booth Amphitheater, North Carolina Symphony and Town of Cary, Cary, NC

  • 62 Center for Theater and Dance, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

  • Glavin Family Chapel, Babson College, Wellesley, MA

  • Forrestal-Bowld Music Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH

  • Juliet Lyell Staunton Clark Music Center, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

  • Green Music Center, Santa Rosa Symphony and Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

  • Student Residence Village, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

  • DreamWorks SKG Headquarters and Production Studios Master Plan, Playa Vista, CA

  • Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

  • Richard W. Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, Wellesley, MA

  • Celebration School and Teaching Academy, Walt Disney Company, Celebration, FL

  • Summit Residences, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, Milan, Italy

Team Architect, 1984

  • Master Plan Ex Breda, Pistoia, Italy

ARCHITECTURAL AND THEATRICAL DESIGN, Cambridge, MA

Principal, 1981–83

Representative Projects:

  • The Bang Studio Residence, Woodshole, MA

  • The Ice Breaker, New Rep Theatre, Watertown, MA

  • Transformation Pending, Concord Academy, Concord, MA

  • Bent, New Ehrlich Theatre, Boston, MA

  • Landscape and Legacies, Strand Theater, Boston, MA

  • The Divine’s, New Ehrlich Theatre, Boston, MA

  • Voices, New Ehrlich Theatre, Boston, MA

  • Jaque Brel is Alive and Well in Paris, New Ehrlich Theatre, Boston, MA

Education

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA

  • MArch, 1981; BSAD, 1977

  • Chandler Prize, 1981 and Chamberlain Prize, 1980

  • Teaching Assistant for Giancarlo de Carlo, 1980

  • Teaching Assistant for Gerhard Kallman, 1979

  • Grant recipient of the Grunsfeld Fund & Undergraduate Research Program, 1975

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Cambridge, MA

  • Design Studio, 1979

  • Design project selected for GSD Archives, 1979, Harvard University

INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, Urbino, Italy

  • Design Workshop, 1977

Teaching

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, 2002–8

  • Upper-Level Undergraduate Design Studios and Thesis Preparation

Exhibits

  • Mercury Gallery, 2011, Deborah Epstein Woven Work/Alan Joslin Sketchbooks

  • Nude in the Landscape, MIT 1974

Lectures

  • The Acoustical Society of America Conference, 2008, Architectural Acoustics

  • Boston Society of Architects, 2008, Mentoring: It’s Okay to Share

  • Stained Glass Association of America, 2004, Marriage of Art and Architecture: The Glavin Chapel Loomis

  • Chaffee School Faculty Day Keynote, 2003, The Design Challenge of the Classroom

  • AIA New England Conference, 2001, The Forrestal-Bowld Music Center, Phillips Exeter Academy

  • USITT Conference, 2001, Honor Award Case Study Presentation

Juries

  • 202 BSA/AIA New York Housing Design Awards

  • 1997 AIA Philadelphia Chapter Design Awards

  • 1996 AIA Orlando Chapter Design Awards

Guest Critic: Design Studios

  • MIT, Yale, Mass College of Art and Design, Roger Williams College, Wentworth Institute, Boston University School for the Arts, and the Boston Architectural Center

Community Affiliations

  • AIA and Boston Society of Architects, Member

  • Riverside Implementation Committee, Member, 2004–present

  • Kerry Corner Improvement Association, Representative, 2002–03 & 2023-24

  • Kerem Shalom Building Committee, Consultant, 2002

  • Cambridgeport School Long Range Planning Committee, Chairman, 1995–7

  • Registration

Registration

  • Licensed in the states of Massachusetts (6997), Maine (3049), and Connecticut (13166)