Shawn Lutz
Assistant Professor
Shawn Lutz is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning. His work investigates housing, architectural typology, and the relationships among formal, regulatory, material, and urban systems. He is particularly interested in how constrained sites, development regulations, geometry, and graphic operations can generate new propositions for collective living, and how construction, representation, and making can serve as instruments of architectural inquiry.
Lutz is the director of Lutz Office, a Houston and Denver based practice for architectural projects, research, drawings, writing, and exhibitions. He brings more than a decade of professional experience in Houston, New York, and Chicago, with work spanning residential, institutional, urban, exhibition, and graphic projects. Through Lutz Office, he continues this trajectory through built work, speculative proposals, research prototypes, and exhibitions. Projects including Peculiar Houses, Loopy Middles, and Aggregate House: A Heterogeneous Collection of Types develop related questions through different forms of architectural production. His work has received a 2025 Texas Society of Architects Studio Award and has been published in Texas Architect, POOL, and Rumor Reviews.
Prior to joining CU Denver, Lutz taught at Rice University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston. He has served as an invited critic at Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, and the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design