Scott Wilson, AIA
Founding Director | Architect
I love designing from a bird’s eye view, and then diving deep into the weeds-working out every nuanced detail. Do it over and over again and the results are truly satisfying on every level. Make these back and forth trips with your clients, and the wide and close-in perspective gets even better. Without such an approach, we designers shall surely miss great opportunity to create timeless experiences.
Scott is a founding partner of Wilson Butler Architects, with a 40 year career focused on the planning and design of award-winning performing arts and entertainment facilities. Clients and users alike respect his ability to lead the architectural planning and design process while connecting all the dots. In WBA’s beginning, Scott, with his partner Scott Butler, developed a unique array of visual tools that allow clients to actively engage in the design process. Scott’s depth of experience includes “out of the box” approaches to stretch existing conditions, coordinate building systems and maximize construction value with thoughtful, smart, creative, often clever and efficient planning and design. With Scott as design leader, no option gets overlooked, no detail forgotten.
As champion of the WBA-brand of “hands-on collaboration”, Scott mentors our growing design staff- infusing their state of the art digital skills with a proven design approach that continues to succeed. Scott has wide-ranging experience in urban design, community realm design, and land-use that integrates performing arts and entertainment into all aspects of a campus and or community plan.
Scott is a registered architect in several states and is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. Scott is a self-taught, yet accomplished woodworker. On a Casco Bay (Maine) island, he spends his leisure weekends, woodworking, messing about in boats, and endlessly tinkering with “the cottage” (a 7 year work in progress). He shares this island retreat and their “city home” in Boston with his wife, Celeste, their four grown children and four grandchildren.