Phil Bernstein

Architect, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Technologist

Phillip G. Bernstein is a Vice President at Autodesk, a leading provider of software for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. An architect with twenty five years of experience, he leads Industry Strategy and Relations for the AEC business, where he is responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology serving the building industry, as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm's relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to joining Autodesk, Phil was an Associate Principal at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. Phil has taught at the Yale School of Architecture as a Lecturer in Professional Practice since 1988. He writes and lectures extensively about practice and technology issues, has been published in Architectural Record, Architecture, Architecture+Urbanism, Design Intelligence, Fortune and Perspecta and quoted in The Economist, Vanity Fair, Dwell and The Wall Street Journal. Phil is co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, published in 2010 by Princeton Architectural Press, as well as BIM in the Academy: Technology’s Implications for Practice and the Academy to be published later this year. He was the executive responsible for Autodesk’s recent Waltham AEC Headquarters, which has received awards from the American Institute of Architects, Business Week/Architectural Record, the Association of General Contractors and Interiors Magazine. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Industry Contributor Award in 2010 by the Connecticut Construction Institute. Phil received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University and a Master of Architecture also from Yale. He is a Trustee of the Emma Willard School of Troy, NY, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and former Chair of the AIA National Contract Documents Committee.

Using technology to improve the human condition, particularly in the built environment.

Architecture, Digital Technology