Paul Schlapobersky

Associate

Biography

Paul Schlapobersky joined Machado and Silvetti Associates in 2004, and was made an Associate in 2005. He has served as project director for a Civic Building, Ice Rink and Pavilion in Silver Spring, Maryland, lead designer of the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madision, and project manager of the Al Ain Oasis Cultural Quarter Master Plan, in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Mr. Schlapobersky received a Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree in 1990 and a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1992, both from the University of Waterloo, Canada. During his studies, Mr. Schlapobersky served as an intern in the offices of Barton Myers Associates, Los Angeles, and Aldo Aymonino, Rome.

After graduating Mr. Schlapobersky worked for eight years in private practice in South Africa, his home country, where he became a registered architect in 1995. During this time, he was architect of the Johannesburg municipal government’s Yeoville Community Clinic (1995-8), and architect for the Head Offices of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, Johannesburg (1998-2000). He was one of three finalists in a national competition for a headquarters building for Pilkington-PFG Glass (1995), and also completed several residential projects. In 1998, the Yeoville Community Clinic was included in an exhibition of South African architecture at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.

Mr. Schlapobersky received a Masters of Science in Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, where his thesis received the departmental thesis award for Architecture and Urbanism. He has lived and worked in Boston since completing his graduate studies and is a registered architect in Massachusetts. Mr. Schlapobersky is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is also LEED certified through the US Green Building Council.

In addition to his work experience, Mr. Schlapobersky taught a graduate level design studio in the Fall of 2005 at M.I.T., and has been a guest critic at M.I.T. He previously taught design studio at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1997-1998).