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James Timberlake, FAIA

Partner 

James is a founding partner of the firm. He received his B.A. from the University of Detroit, with honors, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, with honors. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 1982-83.  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. Timberlake 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 and the University of Texas at Austin among other institutions.  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’ forthcoming 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. Timberlake served as Design Partner for the Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, Atwater Commons at Middlebury College, the Noyes Community Recreation Center at Cornell University, and a housing prototype for the Make It Right Foundation in their effort to restore the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He is currently Design Partner for the new Center City Building for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre, and Revelle College Apartment Housing and Dining Commons Renovation at the University of California in San Diego.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Abridged List

Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 2004
MIT Open Source Building Alliance
BuildingEnvelopes.org, Consortium Partner, Harvard University Center for Design Informatics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building Technology Group
Latrobe Fellow, College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects, 2001
Fellow, American Institute of Architects, 1998
Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1982 – 83
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1997 – Present
Advanced Master's Research Laboratory, Spring 2000
Masters Studio Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, Spring 1998
Advanced Masters Studio Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1998
Advanced Masters Studio Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1997
Juror, AIA Connecticut Awards, 2000
Juror, Virginia Society of Architects Award Jury, Fall 1996
Juror, Canadian Architect Magazine Award Jury, 1995
Advanced Masters Studio Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design, Yale University, 1994
Summer School, Tallinn Art University, Tallinn, Estonia 1993
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1986 – 88
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1984
Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1981

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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