Director/Chief Executive Officer

We are pleased to announce that SCI-Arc has selected Winka Dubbeldam to serve as the next Director and CEO, effective September 1, 2025. 

Winka brings more than three decades of experience to the forefront of architectural practice and education. She is a full Professor of Architecture and served as Chair at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design for ten years (2013–2023). Previously she initiated and directed the Post-Professional Architecture program for ten years (2003–2013), providing international students with innovative design skills, cutting-edge theoretical and technological knowledge necessary for a productive and innovative career in the field of architecture. Winka is the founding principal of Archi-Tectonics, an award-winning studio with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Hangzhou. Her work is known for hybrid sustainable materials, smart building systems, and elegant, innovative structures. Her work has been published in four monographs, with a fifth, Monsters and Mutants (Park Books, Switzerland), launching later this fall.

Winka’s tenure at Penn saw major programmatic growth and thought leadership, including hosting the 2023 ACADIA Conference, serving as External Examiner for the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London) and the Bartlett School of Architecture (London), and serving on the editorial board of THE PLAN Journal (Italy). Her ability to translate vision into strategy—while galvanizing faculty, students, and institutional partners—positions her to lead SCI-Arc into a new era of innovation and impact.

Winka received her Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and a Professional degree in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam.

Read the full press release here.

Courtney Wilk-Mandel and Ben Tobin led this search with Nella Young and Alaine Small.