Kevin is a designer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Currently, he is located in New York City, where he works as a project designer at Space Exploration Design and freelances for various projects and engagements around the city.
Previously he has worked as a designer with firms across the United States and Europe, including Bjarke Ingels Group and Snøhetta, where he was exposed to projects of myriad scales and typologies—from small-scale installations, residences, and interiors; to cultural institutions, museums, and public libraries; and to larger, urban master plans. He wrote his thesis on the spatial infrastructures of youth nightlife networks in Amsterdam, conducted independent research on the ad hoc architectures of post-industrial Berlin’s renegade rave scene, and assisted artists in Paris through the Cité International des Arts à Paris. Through NHDM, he also participated in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023 and the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism in 2019. He has lectured, been an invited critic, or taught in varying capacities at Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Houston, Boston Architectural College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Austin’s South by Southwest.
In addition to his professional and independent work, he is actively engaged in Brooklyn’s underground, techno scene and has consulted and assisted in the production of various raves and nightlife happenings around the city.
Kevin received his Master of Architecture with honors from Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from the University of Houston, summa cum laude. Following the completion of his graduate studies, Kevin was awarded the the Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the Building Technologies Honor Award, and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize for postgraduate study, allowing him to conduct research on architecture, networks, and territories of interim urbanism in Berlin’s underground, techno cultures. There, he focused on the methodologies with which post-industrial space was appropriated and subverted into ad hoc utopias of simultaneous pragmatism and romanticism—spaces where different logics and desires of the land are projected and overlaid—resulting from the urban modulations and crises beset by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Academic Experience —
Professional Experience —
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Previously he has worked as a designer with firms across the United States and Europe, including Bjarke Ingels Group and Snøhetta, where he was exposed to projects of myriad scales and typologies—from small-scale installations, residences, and interiors; to cultural institutions, museums, and public libraries; and to larger, urban master plans. He wrote his thesis on the spatial infrastructures of youth nightlife networks in Amsterdam, conducted independent research on the ad hoc architectures of post-industrial Berlin’s renegade rave scene, and assisted artists in Paris through the Cité International des Arts à Paris. Through NHDM, he also participated in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023 and the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism in 2019. He has lectured, been an invited critic, or taught in varying capacities at Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Houston, Boston Architectural College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Austin’s South by Southwest.
In addition to his professional and independent work, he is actively engaged in Brooklyn’s underground, techno scene and has consulted and assisted in the production of various raves and nightlife happenings around the city.
Kevin received his Master of Architecture with honors from Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from the University of Houston, summa cum laude. Following the completion of his graduate studies, Kevin was awarded the the Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the Building Technologies Honor Award, and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize for postgraduate study, allowing him to conduct research on architecture, networks, and territories of interim urbanism in Berlin’s underground, techno cultures. There, he focused on the methodologies with which post-industrial space was appropriated and subverted into ad hoc utopias of simultaneous pragmatism and romanticism—spaces where different logics and desires of the land are projected and overlaid—resulting from the urban modulations and crises beset by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Academic Experience —
- Columbia University — Adjunct Assistant Professor / New York, NY / August 2023 - Present
- Columbia University
— Graduate Teaching Assistant / New York, NY / January 2019 - May 2019
Professional Experience —
- Space Exploration Design – Project Designer / Brooklyn, NY / April 2022 - Present
- Snøhetta — Designer / New York, NY / November 2020 - April 2022
- Bjarke Ingels Group
— Designer / New York, NY / May 2019 - November 2020
- N H D M — Project Assistant / New York, NY / March 2019 - May 2019
- Bjarke Ingels Group— Design Intern / New York, NY / May 2018 - September 2018, January 2020
- DDG Partners — Design Intern / New York, NY / May 2017 - September 2017
- WE-DESIGNS — Designer / New York, NY / Paris, France / 2016, 2013
Education—
- Columbia University — Master of Architecture / 2019
- University of Houston — B.S., Interior Architecture / B.A., French / 2016
HOME 2021 Competition Honorable Mention - The Bronx Culture Container / 2021 Monte d’Oiro Competition Shortlist - Vale-un-Veil / Climate Summit 2020 - Planetary Acupuncture / Abstract 2019 - Portfolio / Abstract 2019 - Cycladic Cliffhanger / Abstract 2019 - Teeny Weeny Santorini / Abstract 2019 - Section Qualities / GSAPP Lowenfish Memorial Prize - Studio Award / GSAPP Building Technologies - Portfolio Award / William Kinne Fellows Prize / Buell Center Paris Prize Finalist / Abstract 2017 - Pier2Peer / Out for Education Award Recipient / AIA Houston Design Award - InsideOut / UH Exemplary Senior Thesis - Rave New World / Cite Magazine - InsideOut / Illuminus Boston - Projective Dualism / Acadia Installation - Projective Dualism / South by Southwest - Pop Rocks / Cité Internationale des Arts Paris - Digital Novelty / Undergraduate Research - PetraTetra / Collected Works Volume 4 / Collected Works Volume 3 / ArchDaily - Vitreous / AIA Austin Design Award / AIA Huron Design Award