Hugh Magee holds a Masters in Architecture from MIT School of Architecture and Planning. He is a UK Fulbright Scholar and Co-Founder of Object Causey, a Design & Development practice that partners with growing Mission-Driven Organizations operating in the civic realm.

While studying at MIT Hugh was awarded a TATA Fellowship with the TATA Center for Technology and Design, working as a Research Assistant at the MIT Urban Risk Lab on public space infrastructure for disaster preparedness in the wake of Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes. Recently Hugh has participated in MIT’s DesignX and Sandbox Accelerators for new ventures and is a past winner of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge.

During his time at MIT Hugh was a Teaching Assistant for Undergraduates and worked as a Research Assistant for Assistant Professor Brandon Clifford. Hugh’s work at MIT included research on environmental systems for the agricultural industry in arid northern Mexico, archive design for a UNESCO world heritage site in Spain and innovations in pre-K education in the United States. His Master thesis, “Soggy Sovereignty on the Irish Border”, examined the potentials for civic architecture to undermine and augment the effects of a revived border in a post-Brexit Ireland.

A native of Northern Ireland Hugh grew up in the Mourne Mountains, the landscape that inspired C.S. Lewis’ Narnia. Graduating with First Class Honors from the Belfast School of Architecture, Hugh has won the Royal Society of Ulster Architects’ Medal, the Dr. Gerard O’Hare Travel Scholarship, the British Council IAESTE traineeship, and a High Commendation in the Norman Foster Travel Scholarship. Hugh has spent time in France having lived in Paris and studied for a year at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne.