Michael Yusem

Senior Associate

Biography

Born and raised near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Yusem received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1988 and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1993. He practiced architecture with Richard Meier & Partners in New York City and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, focusing on a range of award-winning institutional and high-end residential projects.

In 1996, Mr. Yusem joined Machado and Silvetti Associates where he was named an associate in 1999 and a senior associate in 2002, and has acted as managing director since 2007. He has served as project director and senior designer on a wide variety of domestic and international projects, including a 365-bed graduate student housing complex at Harvard University, the phased development of a 43-acre biomedical research campus at the University of California San Francisco, the 2000-bed Hassayampa Academic Village housing complex at Arizona State University, the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon and the Shady Hill Studio Arts Complex and Gymnasium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, he is project director for the Qasr al Muwaiji Research Center in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, the Westown Mixed-Use Development in Cairo, Egypt, and the Al Ain Oasis Cultural Quarter Master Plan in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Mr. Yusem completed a three-year term as a director of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Alumni Council. He has also been a design studio instructor and guest critic at Harvard University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University and the Boston Architectural Center. He has lectured at Harvard on international architectural practice, served as a speaker at the Executive Education design program, and has contributed to several local architectural publications, including Architecture Boston.