Lecturer
Paul McCoy is an Intermediate Designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. His portfolio, Protagonists of Architecture, received the 2020 Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy & Architectural Innovation in concert with the Kanter Tritsch Medalist, Peter Eisenman. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Arthur Spayd Brook Memorial Prize: Gold Medal—joining the company of past recipients Julian Abele, Louis I. Kahn, and Jenny Sabin. In 2021, Metropolis magazine named him one of the “Future 100” emerging designers in the United States.
Paul’s professional experience includes work with Weiss/Manfredi, Oyler Wu Collaborative, and Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. His collaborations have contributed to multiple winning competition entries and exhibitions at venues such as the 2022 ACADIA Conference, Pratt Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the CityX Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He has served as guest critic at institutions including the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Ball State University, Texas A&M University, and the Barcelona Architecture Center.
He is the Founder of Studio Germaine, a research and design studio creating interior products derived from high-resolution surveys of historic ornament, and the Director of The Lineweight Workshop, an independent education platform for drawing.
Deeply engaged in architectural discourse, Paul has organized and contributed to events that bring design into dialogue with broader cultural and philosophical conversations. These include the 2017 INTERFACE Debate between Patrik Schumacher and Mark Foster Gage, the 2018 Deep Vista Symposium with Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Kristy Balliet, and Michel Rojkind, and production design for the 2022 ACADIA Conference. At UT Austin, he is a member of the Visual Communications faculty, where he fosters new discussions about representation.
Through practice, teaching, and research, Paul continues to explore how drawing and representation can shape the future of architecture.
EDUCATION
- Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University
