Patrick Pinnell
Senior Consultant, Architectural & Environmental Design
Patrick Pinnell is an architect, planner, author and educator. For 12 years, before moving to Connecticut in 1989, his practice (Cass & Pinnell Architects) was based in Washington, D.C. The firm’s many award-winning buildings included houses for members of the U.S. Senate and a church for a minority congregation in northeast Washington. Architectural work includes projects in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Florida, California, Connecticut, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Patrick headed Yale’s graduate research program in Environmental Design, and taught design studio and architectural theory classes in the School of Architecture from 1981 until 1998. He has since taught and lectured at many American architectural schools and organizations as well as in Europe and Japan.AFFILIATIONS
Patrick is a founding member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. His publications include articles on the new towns of Seaside, Florida, and Kentlands, Maryland, on the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, and various issues in the theory of architecture and urbanism. He writes commentary on development issues periodically for The Hartford Courant. Patrick authored The Campus Guide: Yale University, a definitive work on campus buildings and planning, published in 1999, with an expanded edition in 2012.
