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.

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Life and works

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.

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  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".
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