Résumé

Principal, James L. Cutler, Architect, Bainbridge Island, WA, 1977-2001. By 2001, the firm was known as "Cutler Architects."

Partner, Cutler Anderson Architects, PLLC, Seattle, WA, 2001- . From at least 1993 until the present, the Cutler and Cutler Anderson offices were located at 135 Parfitt Way SW, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. (Tel: 206.842.4710)

Cutler designed two model houses for Lindal Cedar Homes, a Tukwila, WA-based builder of prefabricated houses, c. 2004;

Teaching

Critic and Design Instructor, University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA, 1973-1974.

Critic and Design Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1978-1987.

Critic and Design Instructor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1993.

Friedman Professorship in Architecture, Critic and Design Instructor, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1999.

Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Oregon (U of O), Eugene, OR, 1999.

Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2002.

Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2004.

Artist-in-Residence, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Seattle Chapter.

In 2005, Cutler was a Registered Architect in WA, NY, AK, and HI; in 2014, he was a registered architect in the States of WA, NY, AK, HI, TN, MT, RI, NC, and CT. By c. 2025, he was a registered architect in the States of AK, CT, HI, MD, MI, NY, NC, WY, TN and WA..

Co-Founder and Vice President, Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Bainbridge Island, WA.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

According to the Cutler Anderson web site in 2014: "Dedicated to design excellence, Cutler Anderson Architects has received six National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and over 40 national and regional design awards." (See Cutler Anderson.com "About Cutler-Anderson Architects,"accessed 03/20/2014.)

Recipient, AIA, Seattle Chapter, Gold Medal.

College

B.A., University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA, 1971.

M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA, 1973.

M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Louis I. Kahn Studio Program, Philadelphia, PA, 1974. Louis I. Kahn passed away in 1974, the year Cutler graduated.

College Awards

Recipient, Dale Traveling Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA.

Recipient, James Smythe Turner Prize, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Recipient, Edward Spayed Brooke Medal, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Relocation

James Lee Cutler was born in PA on 10/12/1949.

From at least the 1980s-on, Cutler maintained his office and lived on Bainbridge Island, WA.

Parents

His father Joseph Cutler (born c. 1911 in Russia), worked as a salesman in Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 1940. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03562; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 40-292, accessed 04/24/2025.) Both of his paternal grandparents had been Russian-Jewish immigrants, who immigrated to the US around 1910.

Spouse

Cutler married Pamela West on 06/11/1972. They divorced in 1996. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington State Divorce Indexes, 1969-2014, accessed 04/24/2025.)

He wed Beth Anson Wheeler on 10/06/2002 in Kitsap County, WA. (See King County Marriage Records, 1855-2017 - James Lee - Beth Anson - Cutler - Et Al., Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, accessed 08/02/2019.)

Children

He and Pamela West had had three children by 1996.

• Wilkes-Barre, PA (Architect's Birth)
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