A partner with Davis Brody Bond for over 35 years, Will Paxson leads the design of the firm’s major science and technology projects, with a particular passion for research facilities for academic clients. His work involves technological innovation in the design of science and research buildings to create high-quality workplaces that encourage interdisciplinary research and interaction. He is particularly interested in the long-term use of buildings — how they can be designed to offer lasting value, to optimize the performance of scientific instruments, to be sustainable and energy efficient, and to provide spaces that encourage interaction and collaboration. Mr. Paxson has been a guest-lecturer at Columbia University, an invited speaker at the AIA, and a participant in New York to Europe Planning Delegation, visiting Berlin and Copenhagen, sponsored by Pratt Institute.

His diverse portfolio includes the Northwest Corner Interdisciplinary Science Building and the Irving Cancer Research Center at Columbia University; Medical Research Building IV at Vanderbilt University; the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center at Northwestern University; and the Master Plan for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. In addition he has collaborated with Nicholas Grimshaw, Rafael Moneo, and Renzo Piano on the design of buildings involving state-of-the-art technology for research and experimental media. Mr. Paxson has created award-winning research facilities for such notable institutions as Harvard Medical School, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Northwestern University.