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Jay Wickersham

Founding Partner at Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP
Cambridge, MA, USA

Jay Wickersham has worked in all aspects of design, planning, and development as a lawyer, a government regulator, an architect, and an urban planner. He is a founding partner in the Cambridge, MA law firm Noble, Wickersham & Heart LLP, which represents architectural and design firms around the country and internationally. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts.

Jay taught courses in the law, history, and ethics of architectural practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 15 years, where he was an Associate Professor of Architecture in Practice. He has served as president of the Boston Society of Architects, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Yale College, and he is a registered architect with ten years of professional experience. Jay is co-author of Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University, forthcoming from Monacelli / Phaidon in the fall of 2024.