Utile was hired by the Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences in June 2006 to do a two-stage design project for Emerson Hall, a 1904 neoclassical building that contains both classrooms and the offices and support space for the Department of Philosophy. The first phase was a summer interiors project that captured four additional faculty offices and reconfigured the departmental office suite. The second phase of the project was a comprehensive master plan for the building that has three mandates: increase the number of classrooms and seminar rooms available to other Harvard FAS departments, further consolidate the functions of the Department of Philosophy to improve collegiality between faculty and faculty and students, and recover some of the original architecture that was obscured or destroyed in the 1968 Walter Gropius/TAC renovation.