Stephen Kieran is a founding partner of the firm. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 1980-81. Both Kieran and Timberlake were inaugural recipients of the prestigious Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research from the AIA College of Fellows in 2001. Recently, KieranTimberlake Associates received the 2008 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor bestowed on a firm by the American Institute of Architects.
Mr. Kieran is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, and Endowed Professor in Sustainability at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has served as Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University, Max Fisher Chair at the University of Michigan, and has taught at Princeton University. He has co-authored two books: Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002, and refabricating Architecture, published by McGraw Hill in 2004, which examines how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction. The partners’ latest book, Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, is a case study of a single building which shows a way forward to quality, productivity and sustainability.
Mr. Kieran served as the Design Partner for the Middle School at Sidwell Friends, the Loblolly House, Berkeley, Pierson, Davenport and Silliman residential college renovations and the Sculpture Building and Gallery at Yale University. He is currently the Design Partner for the Morse and Stiles Colleges Addition and Renovation at Yale, a new Meeting House and Arts Center at Sidwell Friends School and the new Northwest Campus Student Housing complex at UCLA in collaboration with Pfeiffer Partners.
Academic & Professional Affiliations
Abridged List
BuildingEnvelopes.org, Consortium Partner, Harvard University Center for Design Informatics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building Technology Group
House N Research Group, Open Source Building Alliance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Latrobe Fellow, College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects, 2001
Fellow, American Institute of Architects, 1997
Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1980 – 81
Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1995 – Present
Advanced Master's Research Laboratory, Spring 2000
Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, Spring 1998
Eero Saarinen Distinguished Visiting Professor of Design, Yale University, Fall 1994
Juror, Atlanta AIA Awards, 2000
Juror, Maryland AIA Awards, 1995
Lecturer, Graduate School of Design
University of Pennsylvania, 1989 – 95
Studio: Third Year Masters: Urban Design
Courses: Twentieth Century American Urban History
Thesis: Independent Study
Lecturer, School of Architecture, Princeton University, 1982 – 89:
Studios: Junior Independent Work
Senior Independent Work
First Year Masters
Thesis
Courses: Imitative Design Theory
Senior Thesis Seminar
Formal Analysis of Buildings
Lecturer, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 1978 – 80, 1981 – 82:
Studios: First Year Masters
Second Year Masters
Thesis
Courses: Principles of Architecture
Visiting Lecturer, University of Tennessee, 1996
Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Urban Design, Philadelphia, 1993
Visiting Lecturer, Parsons School of Design, 1992
Visiting Lecturer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992
Visiting Lecturer, University of New Mexico, 1986
Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, Lisbon, Portugal, 1982
Visiting Lecturer, Iowa State University, 1980
The Design Research Laboratory — Architecture 2025
The Design Research Laboratory — Architecture 2025 — explores and speculates on the emerging interface between architecture as high art, materials science development, assembly and service. The questions by those in the materials science, component production, and construction industries, coupled with our own aspirations as architects for exquisite artful buildings that shelter use and habitation form the premise of the laboratory dialogue. The laboratory works across the disciplines of architecture, material science development, production and construction industries to engage new assemblies, ideas and strategies.
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