Will Miranda

About

Will Miranda is the Director of Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU) Canada. This office opened in 2025 at the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Department of Architectural Science, and represents a growing presence of CVU in Canada, strengthening collaboration between industry and academia in advancing research, innovation, and discourse on tall buildings and urban development.

Will also serves as the Senior Research Manager for CVU (formerly Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat), assisting in the management and execution of initiatives, including the SkyscraperCenter database, the annual Awards Program, Buildings of Distinction, Sustainability in Action Partnerships, and research projects, such as "The Evolution of Tall Building Flexibility: Adapting to Modern Programmatic Demands," "The Future Potential of Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings," "Future Timber City: An Awareness and Educational Program for Future, Sustainable, Dense Cities," and "Timber Rising: Mass Timber Engagement Program."

Previously a research assistant for CVU Research Office at the IUAV University of Venice, Italy, Will has been involved in the execution with a number of CTBUH research activities, including "Creating Industry-Accepted Criteria for Measuring Tall Building Floor Area," "Study on the Properties of Composite Megacolumns," "A Study on Tall Building Damping Technologies," "Cyclone-Glazing and Façade Resilience for the Asia-Pacific Region," "A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Ropeless, Non-Vertical Elevators," and "Green Living Technologies: What is Missing in the International Standards?"

Will joined CVU in May of 2013, primarily involved in the development of the tall building database, SkyscraperCenter, before moving to Italy in 2016 to provide editorial services and research assistance for the CVU Research Office in Venice. In 2019, Will returned the CVU headquarters, to spearhead internal research studies and analyses on tall buildings and the urban environment surrounding them. In addition to his research and analysis work, he also coordinates and manages videos and building drawings produced for the council.

Originally from upstate New York, Will moved to Chicago and received his Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology in May of 2014. During his time at IIT, he became particularly interested in using data analysis to solve design problems from the human to urban scale.