sarah hirschman

Sarah Hirschman is a licensed architect and founder of Object Projects. She was formerly an Associate Partner at Envelope A+D and a Project Architect at Rapt Studio. Her practice is invested in creating space for (delightful, surprising, fun, weird, confusing, challenging, new, unfamiliar) things to happen.

Sarah teaches architecture at Northeastern University’s Mills College campus in Oakland. She prviously taught at UC Berkeley, the BAC, and MIT, and was the 2017-18 LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University. There, she explored the expression of linguistic figures of humor through objects, patterns, and shifts of scale. This body of work was exhibited as “Paranomasiac” at Knowlton’s Banvard Gallery and at MIT’s Keller Gallery.

Sarah's research has also focused on legal interpretations of architectural originality, co-curating and -designing the exhibitions "Un/Fair Use," "Fair Use," and "Project_Rorschach" with Ana Miljački, shown at Boston's BSA space, MIT's Keller Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, Berkeley's Wurster Gallery, and the Center for Architecture in New York. 

Sarah holds an M.Arch. from MIT, where she was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi medal, the Compton Memorial Fellowship, and the Marjorie Pierce Fellowship, and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, where she received the Weston Fine Arts Prize. 

Her work and writing have been published in Log, Future Anterior, Plat, Clog, Inflection, The Avery Review, Architect, Mark and the book Terms of Appropriation; Modern Architecture and Global Exchange. She edited the 2011 book, Testing to Failure.