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Tim McCarthy

Partner & Managing Principal | Hart Howerton
Tim McCarthy

As Managing Principal of Hart Howerton, Tim directly engages clients in planning and designing market-driven solutions that produce outstanding business results. His leadership of design teams has guided the implementation of projects in more than twenty countries across four continents.

Tim’s commitment to understanding how conditions in the built environment may drive a health and wellness-based design paradigm guides his professional efforts. In addition to his appointment to the CIHF Advisory Board, he continues to lead Hart Howerton’s sponsored research at the University of Virginia’s Center for Design & Health. Additionally, he is an active contributor to ULI’s Building Healthy Places Initiative and was a Working Group Member for the International WELL Building Institute’s WELL “Community Standard.”

Before joining Hart Howerton, Tim worked as an architect in London, UK, and led the design team for 68 Vincent Square, a 70-apartment redevelopment in London’s Westminster; crafted winning entries for design competitions at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Peterhouse College, Cambridge; and undertook institutional work for Princeton University’s Whitman College. Prior to working in the UK, Tim worked on convention centers and large-scale sports venues across the Midwest.

He is Vice Chair of ULI’s Global Exchange Council, was an inaugural ULI Health Leaders Network Fellow, and participates regularly in ULI panel discussions. Tim has served as a guest critic at Kent State University’s architecture program in Florence, Italy; he worked as a course aide at the University of Pennsylvania; and was a teaching assistant at the University of Notre Dame. Tim has lectured at the University of Virginia and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art; his work has been published & exhibited internationally.