Gary Rohrbacher

Gary Rohrbacher is an architect, professor, and co-founder of Filson and Rohrbacher, an architecture, design, and research practice. Prior to launching his firm, Rohrbacher started his career at award-winning architecture offices as a project director and senior designer on numerous internationally recognized projects. Rohrbacher’s deep interest in the integration of design and technology prompted the co-founding of AtFAB, where he has led the design and development of its furniture series. AtFAB has been featured by NPR, The Atlantic, The Economist, PBS News Hour, as well as many international design publications. It has been recognized and exhibited in a wide array of international venues, from the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, to France’s Centre National des Arts Plastiques, to the V&A Gallery in the Shekou Design Museum.

Rohrbacher continues developing designs and developing his craft as a digital artisan. He speaks and gives workshops on design that incorporates making, digital fabrication, and networked, distributed manufacturing. As an educator, he has been recognized for his teaching and research excellence at Harvard University’s Design School, California College of the Arts, University of Texas at Austin, and currently at the University of Kentucky College of Design, where he teaches in the graduate school. He is an NCARB Certified and Registered Architect with an SMArchS from MIT, an MArch from Columbia University, and BA from Lehigh University.