Timothy A. Harrison has been teaching occasional design studios at Georgia Tech since 1997. Until 2006, he was Senior Project Architect at Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, where he practiced for ten years. He has experience also with James Kimo Griggs, Architect, in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Spencer Associates in Palo Alto, California. His architectural studies have included the Harvard Design School, where he was a Jacob Javits Scholar, and the Syracuse University program in Florence, Italy, where he traveled with a Benenson Prize from the Duke University Art History Department. At Duke, Timothy majored in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Structures, where he won top honors, and he minored in Art History with a concentration in Architectural History. Currently, as principal of Timothy Harrison Architects, he is designing a number of residential projects as well as a retreat for Zen Buddhists in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He is highly active in the care of his two young children.