J. Scott Finn is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Auburn University, where he has taught since 1987. He is the Director of the School’s International Studies Program in Rome; a collaboration with The Rome Center of the University of Arkansas.

Scott is a graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, and holds a Masters in Architecture from Yale. He has practiced in New York, Boston and the Island of Nantucket, which provided a wealth of experience in preservation and the history of architecture, and led to his “15 minutes of fame” as the in-house architect for the WGBH PBS TV Series “This Old House.”

At Auburn he teaches in all four curricula in the School: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Community Planning and Interior Architecture.