Allen Pierce is an architect, builder, teacher, and scholar based in Philadelphia. At Tyler, Allen teaches courses in design, fabrication, and construction technology.
His research and writing are centered on issues of autonomy, agency and collective action in the built environment, exploring alternate formal, material, and managerial systems in order to better engage those outside of the established AEC professions in the creation and alteration of the built environment.
His architectural practice, HEIMA, has historically focused on small, high-craft building projects including custom residences, community centers, and urban gardens. HEIMA has recently sought out projects that blur the hardened borders between designer, builder, and end-user, sharing out aspects of the architect’s professional authority to those overlooked by the profession including the very young, the unhoused, the rural, and the “unprofitable” while dropping Allen and a motley crew of volunteers up to their knees in the labor of construction.
In addition to his core work in practice and education, Allen is a founder and president of reBHS, a non-profit built-environment resource center, communal workshop, and creative hub serving rural Rutland and Addison counties in central Vermont.
MArch Georgia Institute of Technology
BA, Philosophy, Rhodes College