The Catholic University of America

Milton Shinberg, AIA, NCARB

Adjunct Associate Professor

Email: milton@shinberglevinas.com

Prof. Shinberg has been in practice as principal since achieving professional registration in 1975, following graduation from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and work with the nationally noted firm of Arthur Cotton Moore + Associates. His projects, renderings and articles have appeared in local and national publications, including the AIA Journal which featured his drawing work.

In addition to many commercial and residential projects, Shinberg has become a specialist in designing public and private schools, religious facilities, and other institutional building types. As an urban school expert, he has been part of the award-winning Second Ward planning group in Charlotte, NC, and was recently a presenter at the Department of Education National Charter School Conference in Milwaukee.

He is principal in the firm of Shinberg.Levinas LLC, together with Salo Levinas. Their work has won numerous awards and includes both national and international projects.

Shinberg has taught in The Catholic University of America School of Architecture for nearly 30 years, as Adjunct Associate Professor since 1992, teaching a wide range of courses and helping to support the committee work load of the faculty.

While studying for his professional degree in architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University, Shinberg received the PPG Foundation Traveling Fellowship, which supported six months of self-directed study overseas, and was Finalist in the John Knox Shear Design Competition. He holds the Alpha Rho Chai medal, having been elected by the faculty to the national architectural honorary society in 1971.

Courses

  • Juror for Studios at the University of Maryland and at Howard University
  • Third Year Studio Critic
  • Human Factors Design Project for Studio 401
  • Graduate Seminar: Beauty & Brains, Course A518 & A522
  • Architectural Graphic Communication
  • Introduction to Design, Fast-Track Program
  • Third Year Studio Coordinator
  • Introduction to Architecture. This course was developed and taught together with Professor Thomas Walton and presented to a Conference on the Beginning Student in Architecture in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Thesis Research and Design Committee Chair and Director
  • Introduction to Architectural Technology, Course A215
  • Introduction to Architecture, guest lecturer
  • Thesis Programming Workshop

Committee Service

1996 - 1998. Member, School of Architecture & Planning Curriculum Committee

1996. Chair, School of Architecture & Planning Technology Coordinating Committee

Selected Professional Projects & Awards

The firm's recent and current projects include the Dance Institute of Washington, among a half-dozen institutional projects in the resurgent Columbia Heights neighborhood, The E.L. Haynes School, the D.C. Preparatory Academy, Georgetown Square, and a museum and commercial addition to an historic synagogue complex in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Other projects include Congregation B'nai Shalom, the M.A.Winter Building, which helped propel the resurgence of Washington's U Street corridor, the Johnson Avenue Lofts, the Chicago Botanical Garden, and Greenpeace USA National Headquarters. He has made presentations and submissions before numerous federal and state architectural and zoning review bodies and has lectured on architecture, education facilities, and, to composition students in The Catholic University of America School of Music, links between music and architecture.

He has been granted expert witness status in zoning hearings and civil actions.

His firm's work can be viewed at www.shinberglevinas.com.

Pro Bono

  • Assistance to Biloxi, Mississippi community following Hurricane Katrina.
  • Neighborhood Advisor for the West End Dupont Action Coalition
  • Neighborhood Advisor for the Sheridan-Kalorama Task Force on the Chancery Act
  • Neighborhood Advisor for the Shaw Project Area Committee
  • Development and Presentation of School Facility Workshops to Charter Schools in Washington, DC
  • Zoning advisor for the relocation of the Levine School of Music, Washington, DC
  • Architectural & Zoning advisor to the Maya Angelou School, that helps youth offenders work toward attaining high-school graduation and college access.

Publications
in addition to publication of projects in magazines and books

  • "Sometimes You Gotta (oughta) Break the Rules," Design Management Journal, Fall 1991, addressing the failure of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation to achieve architectural success.
  • "Space Planning for Alternative Law Practice," in Breaking Traditions: Work Alternatives for Lawyers, ABA Law Management Journal, 1991, helping find architectural solutions to support parents wanting to continue legal careers part-time within the traditional firm structure.
  • "Opening Doors to Scholastic Success, Help Charter Schools Find Inexpensive Schools," the Washington Post Outlook Section, December 5, 1999.
  • "Advanced Masonry," Time-Life Series contributor
  • "At the Intersection of Anger & Ethics," Close to Home, the Washington Post, 1992