Phil Bernstein

FAIA , NOMA , DPACSA

Deputy Dean & Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Architecture

Board of Directors

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Phil Bernstein is the Deputy Dean and a Professor in the Practice at the Yale School of Architecture, where he teaches courses in professional practice, technology, entrepreneurship, and supply chain equality. He is a former vice president at Autodesk, where he was responsible for the company’s Building Information Modeling strategy that included the development of the Revit platform. Prior to Autodesk Phil was an associate principal Cesar Pelli & Associates, where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions including projects for the Mayo Clinic, Washington National Airport, UCLA, and Goldman Sachs. 

He is the author of several books, including Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (Birkhauser, 2018), and Machine Learning: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (RIBA Publishing 2022, second edition 2025). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, and former Chair of the AIA Contracts Documents Committee. Phil has been honored twice by DesignIntelligence as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators in Architecture” and is a member of the College of Distinguished Professors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He received his B.A. (Honors) and M.Arch from Yale and is licensed to practice in California.