Teaching + Research



Digital Media Workshop Instructor | Harvard GSD
Digital Media Workshops | Fall 2024 - Present Wrote and facilitated workshops and office hours on a number of programs : Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Revit, Houdini, Autodesk Maya

Teaching Assistant | Prof. Alexander von Hoffman
HIS 4488: Making the American City | Fall 2022 | Fall 2024
Harvard GSD Urban Planning Department
HARC S-183: The Architecture of Boston | Summer 2022-23
Harvard Summer & Extension Schools
Facilitated in-class lectures and ran weekly review sections
Assisted in writing weekly lectures and scheduled class trips and guests


Summer Projects Research Admin | Prof. Alexander von Hoffman
Harvard GSD Urban Planning Department | Summer 2024
Researched a variety of topics including, Low Income Housing, LIHTC, Housing Density, HUD Policies and Programs in the 1990s, and Affordable Housing Design
Conducted collation and documentation of physical research materials, including the handling and donation archival material

Guest Lecturer in Architecture | HARC S-183: The Architecture of Boston | Sum. 2024

Facilitated in-class lectures and ran weekly review sections

Architecture Mentor / Assistant | Molly McDevitt
Spring 2021 - Present
Wrote and facilitated a week long workshop about Architecture and Urban Planning with Elementary aged students in Northeast Ohio

Research Assistant | Prof. Alexander von Hoffman
HIS 4488: Making the American City | Summer - Fall 2022
Harvard GSD Urban Planning Department
Assisted in writing weekly lectures

Student Success Leader | Prof. David Thal
Student Success Programs | Fall 2019
Kent State University



Design + Fabrication



IT Department | Harvard GSD
Print Technician | Fall 2023 - Present
AV Technician | Fall 2024 - Present

Digital Output Lab | Kent State CAED
Lab Assistant | Jan. 2019 - Aug 2020
Lab Manager | Aug 2020 - May 2021

Ran + Maintained, Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, Large Scale Plotters
Trained new hires and ran program and technical workshops


BH Custom Designs | Ironton, OH
Digital Design Consultant | Summer - Fall 2020
Custom Car Part design and fabrication, from 3D ideation through plasma cutting, welding, finishing and installation

Education



Harvard University Graduate School of Design | May 2025
Master of Architecture I
Thesis | May 2025
Advisors Andrew Witt + Iman Fayyad Developing an Architecture around a Community Benefit Organization for a Generational School in Rural Appalachia

Kent State University | May 2021
Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture Honors College | 2017-2021
Dean’s List | 4 semesters
Semester in Florence, Italy | spring 2020
Alpha Rho Chi | 2017-2021

Selected Exhibitions + Publications



Work shown in ruralGSD Design Summit Kirkland Gallery | 2024

Harvard Arts First “Oyster Floats” | 2024
Article in Harvard Magazine + Cambridge Day

M-A-S-K-S “Articulate in Formation” | 2021

Kent State CAED X-Gallery “irl wfh” | 2021

Kent State Florence Most Inspiring Students’
Project award | 2020

Kent State CAED Student Showcase | 2020

M-A-S-K-S publication “the other” | 2019

“the other” at Kent State CAED | 2019



Proficiencies



Adobe Suite
After Effects
Illustrator
InDesign
Lightroom Photoshop
Premiere Pro
XD
Arc GIS
Autodesk Autocad
Autodesk Fusion
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Revit
Blender
Bongo
City Engine
Cura
Enscape
Grasshopper
Hand-drafting
Houdini
Keyshot
Lumion
Model Fabrication
Photography
Plasma Cutting
Rhino 3D
Sketchup
V-Ray

Please see my current selected works, while this website undergoes (re)development. Thanks!
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Dylan Herrmann-Holt

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Dylan is a designer from rural Appalachia. His work centers on ideas of rurality, construction tectonics, community development and exploring visual representation. He did his BS in Architecture at Kent State University and M.Arch I at Harvard GSD. He typically finds inspiration in the architecture of his youth in Southern Ohio and whatever pop culture he is presently immersed in.