Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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Places
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) is an American architectural critic, theorist, designer, film-maker,
curator
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, and educator.
Education, honors, and career
Not a registered architect, Kipnis first came to prominence through his association with
Bahram Shirdel
Bahram Shirdel is an Iranian architect internationally known as one of the most influential architects dealing with the interdisciplinary field of architecture and science as well as Fold/Folding Architecture. Jeffrey Kipnis, Greg Lynn, Peter E ...
, and
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his writing and speaking about architecture as well as his designs, which have been called high modernist or deconstructiv ...
(and their joint collaboration with French philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...
). Kipnis holds a master's degree in physics from
Georgia State University
Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the ...
, USA (1981), and in 2006, he was awarded an honorary diploma by the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
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,
London
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, in recognition of his contributions to the discipline of architecture as a teacher, critic, and theorist. Other honors include the AIA (Georgia Chapter) Bronze Medal for Service to Architecture (1985), a Professional Development Award from the Architectural Society of Ohio Foundation (1992), and an
Ohio State University
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Distinguished Research Award (2005). He is professor of architecture at the
Ohio State University
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,
Columbus, Ohio
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, USA. He has been a visiting professor at
Princeton University
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,
New Jersey
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,
Columbia University
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,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
* '' ...
, the
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...
,
Los Angeles
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, the
Harvard University
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Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, and a guest professor of Urban Strategies - a postgraduate program at the Institute of Architecture (IoA),
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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(Angewandte Kunst). Kipnis taught at the
Architectural Association
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from 1992 to 1995, where he was the founding director of the Graduate Design Program. He also curates Architecture and Design at the
Wexner Center for the Arts
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in
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...
. As a critic he has written for many different periodicals, including '' Assemblage'', ''
El Croquis
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The leading international architects choose it as their showcase. The volumes dedicated to established Pritzker Pr ...
'', ''
Architectural Design
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'', ''
Harvard Design Magazine
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'', ''
Log
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* Trunk (botany), the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, called logs when cut
** Logging, cutting down trees for logs
** Firewood, logs used for fuel
** Lumber or timber, converted from wood logs
* Logarithm, in mathe ...
As a designer, Kipnis collaborated with architects
Reiser + Umemoto
Reiser + Umemoto (also known as RUR Architecture DPC) is an architecture firm based in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto.
Jesse Reiser
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(RUR Architects) on the Water Garden in Columbus, Ohio (which won a 1998 PA Design Award) and the Kansai-kan National Diet Library. During the 1990s he collaborated with the Iranian architect
Bahram Shirdel
Bahram Shirdel is an Iranian architect internationally known as one of the most influential architects dealing with the interdisciplinary field of architecture and science as well as Fold/Folding Architecture. Jeffrey Kipnis, Greg Lynn, Peter E ...
on the design of influential projects such as the Scottish National Museum, Montreal Urban Design 1990-2000, and Place Jacques Cartier.
Select bibliography
* Kipnis, Jeffrey. ''In The Manor of Nietzsche'', Calluna Farms Press, New York, 1990.
* Kipnis, Jeffrey and Thomas Leeser (ed), ''Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman'', New York, Monacelli Press, 1997.
* Kipnis, Jeffrey. "Twisting the Separatrix," in K. Michael Hays (ed), ''Architectural Theory Since 1968'', Cambridge, MIT Press, 1998. Assemblage'' 14, 1992).
* Kipnis, Jeffrey and Philip Johnson">riginally published in '' Assemblage'' 14, 1992).
* Kipnis, Jeffrey and Philip Johnson, "A Conversation around the Avant-Garde" in Robert Somol (ed), ''Autonomy and Ideology: Positioning an Avant-garde in America'', New York, Monacelli Press, 1997.
* Kipnis, Jeffrey. "Against Two Gravities," in ''Get Off of My Cloud: The Texts of Coop Himmelblau 1968-2005'',
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje