Greg Tew is a designer and educator with international recognition and awards for his work as an architect, interior designer, and industrial designer. Throughout his career, Greg has attempted to create memorable designs from a pragmatic focus on problem solving. That strategy has led to publication of his work in leading design and news publications around the world including: Detail, Architectural Review, l’architecture d’aujourd’ hui, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, ARCHITECT, Ottagono, Metropolitan Home, Architecture, Interior Design, Interiors, and Gourmet, as well as the books XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings and PreFab: Adaptable, Modular, Dismountable, Light, Mobile Architecture.

As an academic, Greg has taught architecture and interior design and has won numerous awards including the Virginia Tech Sporn Award for Teaching Introductory Courses—that prestigious award is the only university-level teaching award where the winner is nominated by students and selected by a committee of students. Greg was also inducted as a member of the Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence.

His primary focus in teaching during the past 10 years has been the ongoing development of Design Appreciation, a course focused on the grand challenge of our time—imagining a way of living that is unquestionably better than the life we live today and that is also sustainable.