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Cyrus P. Dahmubed is an Associate and the Director of Research at Utile, a Boston-based architecture and urban planning and design firm. A lifelong Bostonian, Cyrus received his Master of Architecture from Northeastern University, and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal for Service, Leadership, and Merit. At Northeastern, he served as the President of the school’s chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), the founding editor and curator of the colloquium series and publication, Common Ground, and in several other service and teaching positions. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of CRIT, the national journal of the AIAS.

Cyrus’s work focuses on how the built environment can be a platform for a more just, equitable, and liberated world, including research into frameworks for spatial inclusivity informed by queer spaces and outdoor and WFH spaces in multifamily residential projects, work which he has presented at the national conventions of the AIA and the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). Since 2020, he has worked with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute to design their new Center for Healing, Teaching, and Learning in Dorchester.

Since 2020, Cyrus has led Utile’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative, channeling the office’s efforts into action-oriented tools for inclusive design. He is part of the Out in Design organizing team for queer design professionals in Boston and was recently elected to the Boston Society of Architects’ Ethics Committee and selected as a Co-Chair of the Placemaking Knowledge Community. In 2020 he joined the Boston Children’s Chorus’s Board and has been the Governance Committee Chair since 2021. He served on NCARB’s 2021 Licensure Candidates Think Tank, and has taught studio and seminar courses at Wentworth Institute of Technology and the Boston Architectural College; he has been an invited juror at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Northeastern University, the BAC, Boston University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Minnesota.