Milton Shinberg

AIA NCARB
LEED AP
Principal Architect

Milton Shinberg has been in practice as a registered architect since 1975, following graduation from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and work with the nationally noted firm of Arthur Cotton Moore + Associates. His projects, renderings and articles have appeared in local and national publications.

Shinberg has designed numerous projects in the public and private sector- schools, public charter schools, and private and parochial schools. Projects include reuse of existing school buildings, new schools, and conversion of non-traditional buildings to school use. School project size has ranged from 12,000 square feet to 235,000 square feet.

He is known as a leader in the design of schools in the Nation’s Capital. He was an invited presenter at a US Department of Education National Convention. He has authored materials on school facilities and development that are now incorporated in published guides.

In addition to school projects, Shinberg has designed numerous commercial and residential projects. His work for nonprofit organizations spans twenty years.

He has made presentations before the United States Commission of Fine Arts, the Architect of the Capitol, the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia, among others, and has testified as an expert witness. His work has received awards from the American Institute of Architects.

In addition to architectural registration in several states, he holds the certificate of the National Council of Architectural of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), which provides access to registration in most other states. He has held adjunct status at the CUA School of Architecture for over 30 years, teaching a wide range of courses. In the course of his years of teaching at Catholic University, Shinberg has contributed to campus planning efforts.

While at Carnegie-Mellon University, he received the PPG Foundation Traveling Fellowship and was elected by the faculty to the national architectural honorary society, Alpha Rho Chi. He was engaged by the university to re-program and develop alternative approaches for the renovation for the College of Fine Arts building.