George Knight, AIA
George Knight formed Knight Architecture LLC in 2004, and serves as principal. He had previously spent ten years with Cesar Pelli & Associates in New Haven, Connecticut, serving as Senior Associate, and before that had worked with Shope Reno Wharton Associates in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1989, winning the Willard Thorpe Thesis Prize. In 1995 he graduated from the Yale School of Architecture, where he won the drawing prize and where he has taught since 2004. He sits on the Board of Directors of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Board of Governors of the Ivy Club in Princeton, New Jersey, and the City of New Haven’s Historic District Commission. He lives in New Haven with his wife and five children.
Teaching at Yale School of Architecture
George Knight is a senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has taught drawing and architectural design since 2004. In 2015 Mr. Knight was selected by the graduating students to be awarded the Professor King-lui Wu Teaching Award as a faculty member who combines architectural practice with outstanding teaching.
