Mr. Szostkowski received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Knox College in 1968. He pursued a career in elementary education for nine years, including one year in the Urban Teacher Corps in Chicago, Illinois. While at Community Unit School District No. 300 in Dundee, Illinois, Mr. Szostkowski chaired the Innovations and Educational Philosophy committees and received one of the four Most Innovative Teacher Awards in 1974. After several years as a primary grade teacher, he was appointed Media Center Director for the Kings Road Elementary School.
In 1977, he began his architecture studies with Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1981 with a Master of Architecture degree and Chairman’s Letter of Commendation. At Harvard, he was a Teaching Assistant in visual studies, environmental systems and architectural history, and a recipient of a Graham Foundation grant for independent study. He served as a Studio Instructor and Panelist for the school’s Career Discovery Program, which introduced him to the profession in 1976, from 1981-1985 and 2005.
In 1983, he joined Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects as a senior designer. He was named a principal of the firm in 1994, a director in 1995, and President in 2006.
He has acted as Project Designer on a variety of academic, civic, and corporate projects, including:
- Visual Arts Complex, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (in design)
- Fine Arts Library Relocation, Harvard University (in design)
- Waterside Place Mixed-Use Development, Boston, MA (awarded by competition)
- Two Divinity Avenue Expansion Study, Harvard University
- Littauer Hall Renovation Study, Harvard University
- Health Sciences Building, University of Missouri, Kansas City (in construction)
- Graduate School of Management, University of California, San Diego (programming through construction drawings)
- South Office Building, Boston, MA (conceptual design)
- World Trade Center West Office Building, Boston, MA (competition), BSA Honor Award
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Headquarters, Kansas City, MO
- Law School Expansion & Renovation, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- BSA Honor Award & Tucker Award of Excellence, Building Stone Institute
- Chamberlain Residence Hall and Thorne Dining Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (competition)
- BSA/AIA-NY Housing Award
- Howard Law Library, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Hauser Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
- Harleston Parker Award, BSA Honor Award, AIA/BIA Award, BAC Craft Award
- Louis Marx Jr. '53 Hall, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, BSA Honor Award, Brick in Architecture Award
- Shad Hall, Athletic Fitness Center, Harvard Business School, Harleston Parker Award
- United States Chancery and Marine Guard Quarters, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Becton Dickinson Corporate Campus, Franklin Lakes, NJ
Additional invited competitions on which he collaborated:
- First Allston Science Building, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farms Research Campus, Loudon County, VA
- Central Administration Building, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
- Harvard Business School Student Center, Boston, MA
- Business School Dormitory Complex, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Science Building, Brown University, Providence, RI
- Visual Arts Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Mr. Szostkowski holds membership in the American Institute of Architects, with professional registration in Massachusetts. He has served as both critic and instructor at the Boston Architectural Center, and as a jury critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Roger Williams University. He was a presenter at the Yale Constructs Symposium in April 1999, a panelist for Architecture Boston’s “Material World” Winter 2000 issue, and a participant in the architects’ roundtable for Stone World magazine, April, 2000. He was profiled in the January-March 2002 issue of Building Stone magazine.
On behalf of the Boston Society of Architects, he served as a juror for both the Unbuilt Architecture and Harleston Parker Awards, which he chaired in 2001, and as a juror for the Rotch Traveling Scholarship competition. He has presented the work of the firm to the Kansas City Chapter of the AIA, the School of Architecture at Louisiana Tech University, and as part of the Boston Society of Architects “Conversations on Architecture” series in February, 2005. Mr. Szostkowski served as a juror for the 2006 Brick in Architecture Awards.