Tim Love, AIA

Mr. Love is the founding principal of Utile. He is the lead design review consultant and urban planner for the Massachusetts Port Authority’s development parcels, a design consultant for the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, and is MassDevelopment’s on-call urban planning advisor. He leads all urban design and planning projects in the office and is currently working on a planning study for Boston’s Greenway District and a comprehensive urban design framework for Downtown Worcester, MA.

Prior to founding Utile, Mr. Love was a VP at Machado & Silvetti Associates where he was the project director of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, the Master Plan for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Allston-Honan Branch Library in Boston.  In the 1980s, Love worked for David Childs and Marilyn Taylor at SOM in both Washington, DC and New York City.  He is a tenured Associate Professor at Northeastern University and was a visiting Associate Professor at Yale during the spring of 2009.

Mr. Love received his B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with Distinction and was awarded the Henry Adams Medal, the school’s highest academic honor. Mr. Love is a registered architect in Massachusetts, New York and Virginia and is a LEED accredited professional. He serves on the Board of the Boston Society of Architects, is a Contributing Editor to Places: Design Observer, and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Design Magazine.