Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake

Current Work
Stephen Kieran & James Timberlake
KieranTimberlake


Moderated by Marion Weiss
1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

This lecture is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.
Each year The Architectural League’s Current Work series features significant international figures who powerfully influence contemporary architectural practice and shape the future of the built environment. Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake will present their firm’s work in a public lecture.

Founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Philadelphia-based KieranTimberlake designs educational, cultural, civic, governmental, and residential buildings. Seeing research as a fundamental part of architectural practice, the firm has a trans-disciplinary team “dedicated to interrogating and advancing building design practices through material, system, process, and environment driven questions.”

Projects that embody the firm’s commitment to sustainability and materials research include the Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, which employs the first actively ventilated curtainwall of its type in North America; SmartWrap™, a mass-customizable building envelope exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and Cellophane House™, a fully recyclable, energy-gathering dwelling exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. KieranTimberlake’s mixed-use building at 181 Mercer in New York City is currently under construction as part of New York University’s campus expansion. The firm designed the Embassy of the United States in London with the aim to significantly reduce energy consumption and set an agenda to achieve carbon neutrality. Through the creation of a civic plaza and park, the embassy contributes to the current revitalization of South Bank’s industrial zone.
KieranTimberlake received the AIA Firm Award in 2008 and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in 2010. The Embassy of the United States in London was the recipient of London’s Centre for the Built Environment New London Architecture Award in 2017.

Stephen Kieran received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and the University of Washington, and currently teaches at University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

James Timberlake received a Bachelor of Environmental Science degree from the University of Detroit, and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, and the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches at University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the Board of the National Institute of Building Sciences in 2012.

Marion Weiss is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, based in New York City and the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

When
10 October 2017, 19:00
Where
The Great Hall, Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
10003 New York, NY
Organizer
The Architectural League of New York
Link
The Architectural League

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