Warren Ashworth is a licensed architect known particularly for restaurant design in New York and Chicago. He is a professor of design and of architectural history at the New York School of Interior Design with a special passion for American wood-framed architecture. He is also the editor of a biannual scholarly journal of design and material culture called Nineteenth Century published by the Victorian Society in America. He has worked framing entire stick-framed houses in Connecticut; restoring historic balloon-framed houses in New York; and making a timber-framed building with nineteenth-century tools. He is the co-author of We, the House, a historic novel from Blue Cedar Press.