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KS_01.11.12_Kyle accepts position at the Boston Architecture College as Director of Advanced Architecture Studios and Director of Building Technologies.KS & DW_12.01.11 _featured on Fabrication Robotics Network, a platform for the sharing of knowledge and techniques related to advanced fabrication formed jointly between the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Technology Sydney and the American University of Sharjah.KS_12.08.11_Exotic Aquatics/ Fish Circus accepted for publication in SOILED vol.3 PLATESCRAPERS by Cartogram.DW_10.30.11_Dan completes 'Palliahive' Beehive shelter for the Graduate School of Design Roof.DW_10.05.11_Dan's project [ULAR] built in a Singapore Lobby.KS_09.25.11_Kyle travels to China to assemble a lighted model and deliver presentation boards for a Safdie Architects competition entry in Chongqing.DW_08.01.11_Exemplar Team moves ahead to consult directly with Haitian Government. 2nd Edition of "Designing Process" Published.KS_07.24.11_Pyrophone performs as part of Detroit artists 2:1 Firehouse Detroit show opens in Corktown at Ladder #4.KS_07.05.11_rejoins Safdie Architects in Somerville, Ma.DW_06.20.11_along with the Exemplar team, returns to Haiti with presentations to Presidents' Clinton and Martelly.KS_05.04.11_is awarded the AIA Henry Adams Certificate, the Alpha Roh Chi Medal, and Thesis Prize, completing an M.Arch with high distinction from the University of Michigan Taubman College School of Architecture and Urban Planning.KS_04.29.11_delivers his thesis "Exotic Aquatics/Fish Circus: Cultivating the Enormous within a Shifting Paradigm"DW_03.25.11_joins team from Harvard and MIT to design an Exemplar community in Port au Prince, Haiti. Spends three days on site.KS_03.22.11_receives Taubman College 2011 Associaton of Licensed Architects Award. DW_02.01.11_Landfill Urbanism published in the first issue of Soiled: Groundscrapers.DW_01.11.10_Landfill Urbanism accepted to The Lean Years Simposium at University of Michigan.DW_01.10.10_Teaches J-Term course 'Artificial Light' at Harvard Graduate School of Design. 10.31.10_University of Michigan Master of Architecture Program rated #1 in the US.DW_10.16.10_Landfill Urbanism accepted for publication in SOILED by Cartogram, and Dimensions 24, the UM Taubman College yearly design journal.DW_09.13.10_Article Specification Grade Sustainability takes on the LED manufacturing market published to Lam Partners Blog.KS_09.10.10_submits Fulbright grant proposal entitiled - American Dream Redux: crafting next-gen housing ecologies in a Danish welfare state.DW_08.26.10_begins Master of Design Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.KS_07.12.10_ completes website design and branding for RobinShirley.com, a holistic health coach and reiki therapist.KS_05.16.10_Fatty Shell (v.01) published in Dezeen - Design Magazine blog.DW_05.25.10_accepts consultant position with architectural lighting designer: Lam Partners, in Cambridge, MA for summer 2010.KS_05.07.10_accepts staff assistant position to Chair of Architecture, John McMorrough, to produce the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning School of Architecture's 2011 re-accreditation report.DW_05.02.10_is awarded the AIA Henry James Medal upon Commencement.DW_04.27.10_delivers his thesis "Post-Landfill Ecologies: Opportunistic Urbanisms, Wasted Landscapes."KS_04.24.10_Delivers final studio/robotic fabrication presentation to Cranbrooke's Chair or Architecture Bill Masey, Dean Monica Ponce de LeonDW_03.15.10_Accepted to the Master of Design Studies Program at Harvard University in the Sustainable Design Concentration. He will undoubtably drift into the Landscape, Urbanism and Ecology concentration.
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grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is Master of Design Studies candidate at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and instructor at Boston architectural College. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal in 2010.
After completing his undergraduate architectural degree at Washington University in St. Louis in 2005, Dan spent three years working as an architectural lighting designer in Cambridge, MA. Concurrently he taught at the Boston Architectural College, where Dan and Kyle taught their first architecture studio. He was then funded to develop new lighting coursework published as a feature in Architectural Lighting Magazine (Dec '08).
Dan is committed to research and architectures with the 99%, engaging intersections between architecture and building technology, infrastructure, landscape and urbanism.
Hails from Virginia. He holds a Master of Architecture with high distinction from University of Michigan, where he was awarded Thesis Prize, the Alpha Roh Chi Medal, and the AIA Henry Adams Certificate in 2011.
After completing his Bachelor of Science in Architecture with honors at the University of Virginia in 2005, Kyle worked for four years for Office Da, Kennedy & Violich, and Moshe Safdie and Associates. During this period, Kyle also began to teach graduate design studios at the Boston Architecture College and eventually founded/co-directed the Urban designBUILD program.
Kyle holds a certificate in Design Education from the BAC and anrestricted contractor's license in the Commonwealth of Massachussetts. He is currently taking architectural exams for licensure.
