Gordon Kipping

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Gordon Kipping (born 1966) is the founder and principal of G TECTS, a New York-based architectural firm. Kipping has taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University[1] and has assisted Frank Gehry in teaching design studios at the School of Architecture at Yale University.[2] Kipping has been a studio professor at the School of Architecture at Columbia University,[3][self-published source?] since 2000.

Life and works[edit]

Kipping is a native of Toronto, Ontario who has been living and working in New York City since 1995. Upon completing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in engineering in 1989 at the University of Toronto, Gordon Kipping worked as a mechanical engineer in building services, eventually attaining licensure as a professional engineer in 1993. In 1991, he returned to school to study architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he received a Master of Architecture degree in 1995. Since graduation, Kipping has worked for the offices of Philip Johnson, Greg Lynn, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Davis Brody Bond.[citation needed] Coinciding with his employment in architectural offices, Kipping produced conceptual and built work under the name G Tects, holding a solo exhibition at StoreFront For Art and Architecture entitled "Residual Urban Site Strategies,"[4] (1998) and authored a book entitled Ordinary Diagrams: Electronic Information Technologies and Architecture,[5] (1995 & 1997). The book was cited in the Terence Riley essay "The Un-Private House"[6] accompanying the Museum of Modern Art show of the same name. Comparisons were drawn[according to whom?] between the overexposure produced by glass in the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the similar effect in a G Tects-proposed house as facilitated by electronic information technologies.[clarification needed] The book and a print edition of its final plate "Entity as Information Zoom" are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and were on display in the exhibition "Cut ‘n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City."[7][self-published source?] One of Kipping's most notable[according to whom?] and published projects is the Tribeca Issey Miyake store he designed in cooperation with Frank Gehry.[8] Kipping said he tried to ‘push accepted norms into new places.’[9] with this project which was completed in 2001. The shop occupies three floors of a restored 1888 warehouse on Hudson Street, with gridded stainless steel walls and diagonally striped glass floors.[10] In 2016, G Tects was selected by the New York City Department of Design and Construction to be part of their Design Excellence program, shortlisting them for public projects in New York.[11] Kipping has an extensive client list that includes Issey Miyake, The National Jazz Museum of Harlem, Lincoln Center, Forest City Ratner, City University of New York[12][13] and the New York City Department of Design and Construction.

Awards[edit]

  • 2008, Miyake Madison, Lumen Award of Merit, Illuminating Engineering Society 2008 Lighting Design Awards
  • 2006, G TECTS, New Practices New York: Six Young Firms Set Themselves Apart, AIA New York Chapter & The Architect’s Newspaper[14]
  • 2003, Gordon Kipping, Creative Spirit Award, Black Alumni of Pratt 2003 Celebration of Creative Spirit
  • 2002, Issey Miyake Tribeca Boutique, Showroom & Headquarters, Interior Architecture Award, AIA New York Chapter 2002 Design Awards

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Courses - The Urban Theater". gsd.harvard.edu.
  2. ^ Mattingly, Dan (18 January 2002). "Gehry Returns to Yale to Teach Graduate Seminar". yaledailynews.com. Yale News.
  3. ^ "Faculty". arch.columbia.edu.
  4. ^ "Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: Exhibitions: RUSS: Residual Urban Site Strategies".
  5. ^ "Gordon Kipping - Ordinary Diagrams".
  6. ^ Riley, Terence (1999). The Un-Private House. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. p. 15. ISBN 0-87070-097-9.
  7. ^ "Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City | MoMA".
  8. ^ Muschamp, Herbert (11 November 2001). "Art/Architecture; The Commemorative Beauty of Tragic Wreckage". The New York Times.
  9. ^ Hayt, Elizabeth (29 September 2002). "The Architect". The New York Times.
  10. ^ Caruso, Joyce. "Gehry Downtown". artnet.com.
  11. ^ Wachs, Audrey (18 October 2016). "DDC picks 26 firms to design New York's new public buildings". The Architect's Newspaper.
  12. ^ Dunlap, David. "Metro Briefing - New York: Manhattan: Baruch College Plans Renovation". New York Times.
  13. ^ Haar, Sharon (21 September 2005). "Campus Life". archpaper.com.
  14. ^ Menking, William (26 July 2006). "New Practices New York". archpaper.com.

External links[edit]

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