Brian Tabolt is a design practitioner, educator and Principal of Spekulator, a design and research practice created to imagine the future of the built environment, launched in 2021.

Tabolt is a Senior Associate at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). At DS+R, he leads teams on international performing arts, cultural and landscapes projects including the Tianjin Juilliard School, the Stanford McMurtry Art and Art History Building, and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning In 2013 he was the lead designer of the competition-winning scheme for the 35-acre Zaryadye Park in Moscow, and lead design on the realized project which opened to international acclaim in 2017. Tabolt also led design for the compeition winning scheme for the New Museum of Transport in Budapest, scheduled to open in 2023. Tabolt has also worked for, SHoP Architects, Agrest and Gandelsonas OMA, in New York.

Tabolt was the 2009-10 Peter Reyner Banham Teaching Fellow at The SUNY Buffalo School of Architcture and Planning. Tabolt’s research and teaching focused on the topic of “Re-thinking Big” - an investigation of the aesthetics of objects and systems beyond the limits of immediate human perception in the context of climate change. Research, studios and seminars were inspired by a revisitation of Banham’s work on the megastructures of the 1960s and 70s, with a particular focus on exploring the parallels between architectural and urban responses to the supposed “Urban Emergency” of the late 1960s and the current climate emergency.

Tabolt has also been a visiting studio critic at the Syracuse New York City Program and the Cooper Union.

Tabolt received his M. Arch from Princeton University, where he was a co-founder and editor of Pidgin magazine, and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia where he was the recipient of the J Edgar Shannon Z Society Award. His writing and work has been published in Pidgin 1,2 and 20, and Banham in Buffalo (2011).