New York architect Kevin Kennon will present the next
lecture sponsored by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at
K-State. The two-part presentation, entitled
Kevin Kennon Architects: Works
and Process
and
The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies,
is scheduled for Monday, November 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the
Little Theatre of the K-State Student Union. It is open to the public without
charge.
Kevin Kennon has over 22 years experience practicing
architecture. In 2002, he founded Kevin Kennon Architects after leaving as a
design partner at Kohn, Pedersen & Fox Associates, P.C. As a founding
principal of United Architects, Kevin Kennon was a finalist in the prestigious
2002 World Trade Center Design Competition organized by the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation and has also designed and built the temporary public
viewing platform at Ground Zero.
His work has been exhibited widely and is in the Permanent
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Kennon has received over 30 major design
awards including 10 from the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural
League Young Architects Award and the Progressive Architecture Award. His
monograph, “Architecture Tailored” DD Publication #16, was published in 2006.
He has taught at Yale University, Princeton University, the Cooper Union, and
Columbia University and has lectured at Princeton, Yale, Rice, University of
Houston, Amherst College and the Architectural League of New York. He is the
executive director of the Paul Kennon Memorial Symposium at Rice University,
Houston.
Kennon is also executive director of the Institute for Architecture
and Urban Studies, a not-for-profit educational organization that provides an
introduction to the culture of architecture. The program offers an intensive individualized design studio to
students who are interested in architecture at all scales of its expression.
Particular emphasis is placed on architecture as a cultural activity, how
architecture intersects other disciplines, how advanced technology is used to
create new environments, how new ways of living, work and play transform our
buildings and how collaboration creates a new paradigm of practice. For more
information, please visit www.institute-ny.org
This activity is
sponsored by the K-State Student Fine Arts Fee. Attendance at the
lecture can be submitted as continuing education credit by design professionals
by contacting Diane Potts.
For more information, contact:
Wendy Ornelas, 785.532.5950
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090
