Denise Dea Archives

Teaching as a Craft

August 29, 2024

Denise Dea

The OpenLAB Studio provides us the opportunity to have a cohort of students integrated within our practice and elevates us to teachers for a new group of young architects. [...]

Studio Life when David Rowan was Here

January 3, 2020

Denise Dea, Jennifer Hegarty

Have you heard whispers in the PAYETTE open studio space about Dave Rowan? Who was he? As with many things PAYETTE, the story begins with Tom Payette… Tom Payette became President of Markus & Nocka in 1965. The following year, he hired Dave Rowan right out of RISD to work… [...]

Defining a Leader

September 18, 2019

Ching-Hua Ho, Denise Dea, Sarah Lindenfeld

We recently sat down with three leaders at our firm to share their career paths, what it means to be a leader, advice for emerging designers and how we built a culture of mentorship and equity. [...]

Getting to Know John Wilson, FAIA

May 29, 2019

Denise Dea, Jennifer Hegarty

To a large extent, our current healthcare practice is influenced by former Principal John L. Wilson, FAIA, who had an extraordinary 37-year career at PAYETTE before retiring in 2003. [...]

Inbetwixt Academia and Practice: Thesis

December 28, 2015

Denise Dea

Typically, there is a great divide between architecture of Practice and architecture of Academia. [...]

BAC Distance Learning Intensive

January 29, 2013

Denise Dea, Enno Fritsch, Susan Blomquist

In the BAC's M.Arch distance learning program, students hail from all over the world and convene in Boston once each semester for an Intensive. [...]

Denise joined Payette in 2006 as the Wilson Studio Financial Coordinator and was promoted to Studio Manager in 2012. She’s had a significant leadership role in project management, staffing, mentoring, strategic planning and marketing. Denise has also been teaching design and professional practice courses for 18 years. At the Boston Architectural College, she developed the thesis pedagogy for the Distance Masters program, organizes exhibitions/conferences, developed the Degree Project Studio and taught history and theory seminars, as well as multiple design studios. Denise received her B.Arch. from the University of Southern California in 1992 and her Master of Design Studies in the History and Theory of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994.

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