Bio

Milton Shinberg has been in practice as a firm principal since achieving professional registration in 1975, following graduation from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and work with two prominent DC firms, Arthur Cotton Moore + Associates and the Cooper/Lecky Partnership. He has held professional registration in DC, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. His projects, renderings and articles have appeared in local, national, and international publications.

Shinberg was principal in the firm of Shinberg.Levinas LLC, together with Salo Levinas from 1995 to 2018. Their work has won numerous awards and includes both national and international projects. Projects have been published extensively, locally, nationally and internationally, including firm profiles in Italy, South Korea, and the Netherlands. Prior to Shinberg.Levinas, he was founding principal of A+B+S Architects Group. While studying for his professional degree in architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University, Shinberg received the PPG Foundation Traveling Fellowship, which supported six months of self-directed study overseas, and was Finalist in the John Knox Shear Design Competition. He holds the Alpha Rho Chai medal, having been elected by the faculty to the national architectural honorary society in 1971, and the Faculty Award for Outstanding Graduate.

The firm’s recent and current projects include over thirty-five school projects, ten religious building projects, numerous works for residential clients and a museum with a commercial addition to an historic synagogue complex in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has made presentations and submissions before federal and state architectural and zoning review bodies, including the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and has lectured on architecture, education facilities, and to composition students in The Catholic University of America School of Music about links between music and architecture.

Between Shinberg’s previous practice and Shinberg.Levinas Architects, AIA local chapters and AIA national have given dozens of awards for outstanding design.He has been granted expert witness status in zoning hearings and civil actions. His firm’s work can be viewed at .

Selected Talks

Human Factors and Design Thinking, Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design graduate program, Venice, Italy, April 2026

What Design Can Do, presenter and panelist for the NY|AIA, July, 2025

On the Human Sciences and Architectural Design for SFx, the AIA National Small Firm Exchange, 2024

Continuing Education Course for the National AIA Conference on Architecture, 2018, Orlando, Florida

Continuing Education Course for the Virginia AIA Architecture Conference, 2019, Richmond, Virginia

Continuing Education Course, AIA|DC’s DesignDC, 2017

Architecture & Music, a Talk and Panel for the AIA|DC following performance as part of a chamber music group of Mendelsohn’s Trio in D minor, 2016

Invited Juror, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, Howard University, 1992-2024