ABOUT:
Caleb Hawkins is an architectural designer, fabricator, and artist originally from Concord, New Hampshire. With an academic foundation from the Wentworth Institute of Technology, where he earned both a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a concentration in Urbanism and a Master of Architecture degree. During his time at Wentworth, he served as a teaching assistant for the Center of Applied Research and received prestigious accolades including the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, the Henry Adams Certificate, and the Design Excellence and Co-operative Education Awards.
Continuing his academic journey, Caleb earned a Master of Design Studies in Technology with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was honored with the Master of Design Studies Research and Development Award. He has been featured in TEDx, Vogue Mexico, Architecture Boston, the Wentworth Architecture Review, the Boston Globe. Caleb remains deeply connected to academia, serving on the Professional Advisory Committee for the Wentworth School of Architecture, frequently guest speaking at architecture schools across Boston, and giving talks at conferences about new media art across the country.
With over five years of professional experience at award-winning architecture firms, Caleb has collaborated with industry experts on projects ranging from custom fabrication for exhibitions, memorials, art installations, and international architectural ventures ranging in scale. His expertise spans concept development to completion incorporating architectural design, detailing, and visualization, all underpinned by his knowledge of rapid prototyping and digital computation.
His artistic research practice explores the relationships between technology, user experience, and architectural space to uncover new embodied perceptions and meaning. Constantly inspired by the tensions between physical and virtual experiences his works could be defined as architectural prosthetics which aim to both bridge, and blur these two spaces. He works through experiments with interactive technologies, custom fabrication techniques, projection mapping, and performance art to test, critique and question our relationship to technology and the impacts it has on human existence and notions of the self.
Currently, Caleb is the Design Director at MASARY Studios, where he leads the synthesis of multimedia artworks and anchors the conceptual vision behind large-scale interactive public art installations. When Caleb isn’t designing, you can find him riding his motorcycle, indulging in good food, or losing himself in the deep bass of house and techno music.