Will Hunter

Will Hunter is a New York–based British entrepreneur, educator, designer, writer, and editor whose work explores the intersection of cities, design, technology, and people. He founded the London School of Architecture in 2015, a fully accredited alternative model for architectural education in the UK, which merged with the University of the Built Environment in 2025. After stepping down as CEO in 2021, he spent two years in Boston as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2021–22) and Senior Research Fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab (2022–23). In 2025/26 he will serve a second year as Executive in Residence at both New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate and the Harvard Innovation Lab. At NYU, he recently launched the Building Better Cities Collaborative and teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Real Estate, The Development Process, and Mixed-Use Cities. He previously taught at the Royal College of Art and continues to work with select private design clients. Formerly Executive Editor of The Architectural Review, he is now Executive Editor and Creative Director of Vertical Urbanism, a quarterly magazine which explores how the intelligent use of height and density can create more sustainable cities that elevate urban life and prosperity, published by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He also serves on the advisory board of The World Around.