Faculty & Staff Faculty :: Judith Kinnard, FAIA

Judith Kinnard - CV 2012

Judith Kinnard’s commitment to architectural education spans 28 years and 3 institutions. She received her B.Arch from Cornell University in 1977, and has taught at Syracuse University, Princeton University and the University of Virginia. As Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1998-2003, she worked to strengthen its traditional emphasis on building design while engaging cross disciplinary directions essential to the expanded field of architectural practice. In her studio teaching, she focuses on institutional programs, and their creative engagement of physical and cultural context. Her current research and teaching also involves the development of innovative approaches to low rise/high density housing for American cities.

Throughout her career she has maintained an active commitment to practice, and has developed an approach characterized by sensitive and innovative solutions to issues of site and program. Her work has included numerous small-scale built commissions, and more than a dozen national competitions dealing with larger scale issues of urban design, urban institutions and housing. She has won five of these national design competitions, and placed 2nd in the New Housing New York Design Ideas Competition sponsored by the NYAIA and the City Council in 2004. In 2006, she was named a finalist in the High Density on the High Ground Competition, and a semi-finalist in the Global Green Competition for New Orleans. In July 2010, she won an invited competition for an innovative housing scheme utilizing steel SIPS panels (in collaboration with Assistant Professor Tiffany Lin). This prototype will be built in New Orleans before the end of the year.

In 2004, she was awarded Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects for leadership in architectural education. In 2010, she was elected as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with a three-year term on the national board. Her presidential year began in July 2011 during the 100th anniversary of the organization.