Scott Gerald Shall, AIA, is a Professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) whose work operates at the critical intersection of advanced technology and social equity. As a practitioner, educator, and activist, Shall’s career is defined by a singular inquiry: how architecture can be leveraged to provide high-quality, sustainable environments for communities overlooked by traditional practice.

Shall is the co-founding principal of houm, an award-winning architectural practice established in 2019 to disrupt the housing market through technological innovation. Serving as CEO and Lead Designer, Shall directs the development of cost-effective, eco-friendly residential models ranging from single-family dwellings to large-scale developments. Under his leadership, houm’s scalable housing solutions have garnered significant industry acclaim, including 2025 AIA Michigan Honor Award for Housing, a 2025 AIA Detroit Honor Award for Housing and a 2025 Architecture MasterPrize Award for Housing.

Parallel to his commercial practice, Shall is the founding director of the International Design Clinic (IDC), a registered non-profit dedicated to crowd-sourced architecture and creative action in marginalized global communities. Since 2006, Shall has worked through this organization to realize over two dozen high-impact interventions across five continents, including an urban tent for the unhoused made of reclaimed materials, a vision for education based upon borrowed resources for the migrant communities of India, a dispersed school system for kids working the streets of La Paz, and a two-dollar water filtration system.

Shall’s dual-track career in research and practice has earned him a prominent place in the global architectural discourse. In 2008, Interior Design magazine featured the IDC’s work alongside luminaries such as Kengo Kuma, OMA, and Buckminster Fuller, identifying Shall as a practitioner “challenging the edge” of the discipline. His creative work has been exhibited at the world’s most prestigious venues, including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2013) and MoMA (2015), with solo exhibitions at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (2022) and the San Francisco Museum of Art in Bolivia (2015).

A prolific author and speaker, Shall has presented his findings at the World Congress of Architects (2023), the Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth International Symposia On Service Learning In Higher Education (2013, 2017, 2022, 2024), the 2^nd Valencia Biennial of Research in Architecture (2020), and lectured at institutions including Polis University (2016), the University of Maryland (2009), the New School for Design at Parsons (2008), and the Pratt Institute (2008). His scholarship on socially-responsive design has been featured in a range of publications, including works by Springer (2023), Palgrave-MacMillan (2018), the University of Indianapolis Press (2015) and the AIA Press (2010). Prior to LTU, Shall taught at Temple and UL Lafayette, consistently working to democratize architectural practice for those at society’s margins.