Peter Testa is Founding Partner and Design Principal of Testa & Weiser, Inc. and Founding Director of the MIT Emergent Design Group. Before establishing the practice, he worked as Project Architect with Pritzker Prize laureate Álvaro Siza, directing major architectural projects in Europe and the United States. From 2016 to 2019, he held the role of External Expert in Strategic Design and Architecture at McKinsey & Company, where his work focused on urban innovation, and sustainability-oriented planning.

   Testa’s work has focused on advanced building systems, renewable energy infrastructure, housing prototypes, research campuses, and large-scale mixed-use projects. Key projects include Carbon Tower, Timber Towers, XNRG Water & Renewable Energy, NASA OMEGA Project, Factor(e): PSA Peugeot Citroën, ZXTX Housing & Mixed-Use, and AMGEN 1000 Research Campus.

   Testa is the author and coauthor of several books, including Robot House: Instrumentation, Representation, Fabrication (Thames & Hudson, 2017). His work has received recognition through the MIT Award for Innovation in Teaching, three Graham Foundation awards, the Municipal Art Society of New York Architecture Award, and the NEA Design Arts Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

   Testa has maintained a long-standing role in architectural education, research, and curricular leadership. At Columbia University GSAPP, he was Assistant Professor of Architecture from 1990 to 1993 and Associate Professor of Architecture from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as Founding Director of the MIT Emergent Design Group. He has been a member of the SCI-Arc faculty from 2004 to the present and currently holds the title Senior Design Faculty.

   Peter Testa is a registered architect in the State of California and holds NCARB certification. He received his B.Arch. from Carleton University and S.M.Arch.S. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

   Devyn Weiser is a Founding Partner and Design Principal of Testa & Weiser, Inc., the Los Angeles practice she established with Peter Testa in 2002. She is also Co-Founder of the MIT Emergent Design Group (EDG), a cross-disciplinary design research program active from 1997 to 2002.

   Recently completed architectural projects and research platforms include Testa & Weiser Archive (2024–2026); Model City (2024–2025); Automate the Archive (AUTO) (2023–2025); Model Home (2022–2023); Building After Market (BAM!) (2022); and Model Figure (2021). These works extend Testa & Weiser’s research into architectural models, archival interfaces, graphical systems, and software platforms that reorganize design production as a field of disciplinary inquiry.

   Weiser’s work has received international recognition through exhibitions and publications. Projects by Testa & Weiser are included in the permanent collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and have been presented in museums across North America and Europe.

   Weiser has held a design faculty appointment at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) since 2005, where she served as B.Arch. Thesis Coordinator from 2009 to 2013 and Visual Studies Coordinator from 2016 to 2021. In 2010, she co-initiated SCI-Arc’s Robot House, a research laboratory for robotics in architecture. Her additional academic appointments include Design Studio Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Design Studio Critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and Guest Lecturer, Architecture Class, at the Städelschule (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Frankfurt am Main.

   She is the author of more than a dozen research papers on architecture, design, and computation. Her scholarship and design research appear in peer-reviewed journals spanning art, architecture, engineering, and science, along with international press coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times of London.

   Weiser holds a B.F.A. and B.Arch. with Honors from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.S. Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her honors include the AIA Henry Adams Certificate, the Graham Foundation Award, ACADIA Digital Media Professional Award and Digital Fabrication Professional Award, and the Municipal Art Society of New York Architecture Award.