Jessica Pineo Lohnes

Jessica Pineo Lohnes has over 35 years of professional experience in architecture, urban design and planning. She has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University School of Architecture and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She has taught architecture and planning from first-year architectural design studio through thesis at the Boston Architectural Center.

Over her career and through her design consulting firm, Follies art and architecture, Jessica has been involved with wide array of design projects working in both the private and public sectors. Her design and planning experience ranges from art installations, residential architecture, school design, international hotels and convention centers, streetscape design and implementation, public transit planning, to largescale inner-city community master planning and governance. Jessica maintains a Vitruvian belief that “The architect should be equipped with the knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning…” The architect should be in constant growth mode through education in history, current issues and trends and maintain a forward-looking approach to every aspect of the design problem. She believes that understanding the context of design through tenacious research and realistic analysis produces structures and community spaces that will survive over time.

Jessica is honored to be part of the BU SHA Parent Advisory Council. She has a synergistic belief that the role of hospitality is at the core of many more professions than is understood, not the least of which, the profession of architecture and planning. It is the mission of architects and planners to create places for people to meet and spend time together to form lasting connections and community which is an important aspect of hospitality.