Summary
Dan Lutz is a Managing Principal based in New York with over two decades of design and leadership experience directing HDR’s New York architecture office and stewarding healthcare, science & technology, and civic projects from planning through delivery. He blends deep technical expertise as a former laboratory planner and project architect with strategic business development skills to keep design innovation central to complex, mission-critical facilities. Comfortable in roles from hands-on project architect to executive principal, Dan has a track record of scaling practice operations while maintaining technical rigor and client trust. He also codes as a developer for a New York State trade union, an uncommon mix that underscores his practical, systems-oriented approach to problem solving. Trained at Carnegie Mellon, he brings both a rigorous design education and a pragmatic, multidisciplinary sensibility to large-scale institutional work.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) at Carnegie Mellon University