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KieranTimberlake
IndustryArchitecture
Founded1984
FounderStephen Kieran
James Timberlake
Headquarters
Philadelphia
,
United States
Area served
International
ServicesArchitecture, Sustainable Design, Interior Design, Urban Design, Planning
Websitekierantimberlake.com

KieranTimberlake is an American architecture firm founded by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake in Philadelphia. They have also shown an interest in prefabrication, new technologies and integrating architecture with the actual activities to take place in the buildings they design, especially using "teaching" design elements in schools. Their interest in productions and craft led them to team up with DuPont to develop Smartwrap, a laminated polymer film that can support thin interstitial films, including photovoltaics, OLEDs, polarizing or UV screens, etc.

History[edit]

Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake met while they were architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1970s.[1] Their architecture professor Steven Izenour introduced them to architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and the pair went to work at Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the firm where Izenour was also employed.[1]

In 1980, Kieran won the Rome Prize, which included a year-long fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.[1] In 1982, Timberlake also won the Rome Prize and was awarded a year-long fellowship.[2]

In 1984, Kieran, Timberlake, and structural engineer Sam Harris, established KieranTimberlake. The firm was initially headquartered in Kieran's Powelton Village house.[3][2] Their first projects included a new building for Kieran's father's car dealership and a jewelry store.[2] The firm's first big project came in 1986 when they were commissioned to design a campus community center at Chestnut Hill College.[2] KieranTimberlake was then commissioned for a project at Bryn Mawr's Shipley School complex.[2] Harris later left KieranTimberlake in the 1990s to run his own practice.[2]

In 2001, James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran won the Benjamin Henry Latrobe award from the Fellow of the American Institute of Architects which came with $50,000.[2][4] Timberlake and Kieran used the earnings to write a book titled Refabricating Architecture.[2] The book was published in 2003, and as of 2011, had sold 13,000 copies.[2] In 2002, Princeton Architectural Press published Manual: The Architecture­ of KieranTimberlake, which presents a technical look at the firm's architectural practices.[2] By 2002, the firm had 50 employees.[2]

In 2003, the firm installed the first actively ventilated curtain wall in North America at the University of Pennsylvania's Levine Hall.[5][1] Also in 2003, KieranTimberlake built a pavilion featuring the firm's Smartwrap technology at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[6] SmartWrap is a proprietary system consisting of layers of transparent PET plastic that incorporates ultrathin photovoltaic cells that gather solar energy, coupled with flat chemical batteries to store it.[6][7]

In 2008, KieranTimberlake's Cellophane House was selected to appear at the Museum of Modern Art's Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition.[8] The building was selected for the MoMA's exhibit due to its modular design, use of sustainable building practices, and SmartWrap.[8][9]

In February 2010, KieranTimberlake won the commission for the new Embassy of the United States, London.[10] In January 2018, the new embassy building in London opened. [11]

In 2015, Kieran and Timberlake authored Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water, a book investigating housing and climate change in Bangladesh.[12] The book was inspired by the graduate architecture research studio the pair taught at the University of Pennsylvania, which included a trip to Bangladesh.[12]

By January 2016, KieranTimberlake had moved its headquarters to a 63,000-square-foot former bottling plant for Henry F. Ortlieb’s Brewing Co., now Christian Schmidt Brewing Company, in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia and has 100 employees.[13]

Research and development[edit]

KieranTimberlake has actively pursued research of new architectural materials, processes, assemblies, and products, as well as develop tools to help quantify their research. They are known for helping to develop Tally, a software plugin application that allows architects and engineers working in Revit software to quantify the environmental impact of building materials for whole building analysis as well as comparative analyses of design options. Tally was a joint development project alongside Building Transparency, thinkstep, and Autodesk and was launched at the Greenbuild conference in November 2013, where it captured the attention of AEC professionals who are seeking an integrated and intuitive tool for understanding the environmental impact of materials of new buildings.[14]

Work[edit]

Sculpture Building and School of Art Gallery, Yale University
Brown University Engineering Research Center (2017)
Noyes Community Recreation Center, Cornell University (2006)

Awards[edit]

  • 2007 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture, American Institute of Architects (Yale University, Pierson and Davenport College)
  • 2007 Top Ten Green Award, Committee on the Environment (COTE), American Institute of Architects (Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, DC)
  • 2007 Award for Excellence, Committee on Architecture for Education, American Institute of Architects (Sidwell Friends School)
  • 2008 Institute Honor Award for Architecture, American Institute of Architects (Loblolly House)
  • 2008 Top Ten Green Award, Committee on the Environment (COTE), American Institute of Architects (Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery)
  • 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award[3]
  • 2009 Award for Excellence, Committee on Architecture for Education, American Institute of Architects (Sculpture Building and School of Art Gallery, Yale University)
  • 2009 Citation, Committee on Architecture for Education, American Institute of Architects (West Campus Residential Initiative, Cornell University)
  • 2010 Make It Right Foundation, Top Ten Green Award, Committee on the Environment (COTE), American Institute of Architects (Special NO 9 House)
  • 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture
  • 2013 Institute Honor Awards Recognize Excellence in Architecture, American Institute of Architects (Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale University)
  • 2014 Institute Honor Awards in Architecture, American Institute of Architects (The Quaker Meeting House and Arts Center at Sidwell Friends School)
  • 2015 Institute Honor Awards Recognize Excellence in Architecture, American Institute of Architects (Rice University Physics Lab)

Publications[edit]

  • Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James (2002). Manual: The Architecture of KierenTimberlake. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1568983509.
  • Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James (2003). Refabricating Architecture. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 175. ISBN 978-0071709088.
  • Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James (2015). Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water. ORO Editions. p. 351. ISBN 978-1941806869.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Prendergast, John (November 2, 2003). "A Passion for Putting Things Together". The Pennsylvania Gazette. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Marchese, John (November 19, 2011). "In the Future, We Will All Live in Plastic Houses Put Together in Six Weeks". Philadelphia Magazine. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP Receives 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award". Archived from the original on 2008-03-13.
  4. ^ Amperiadis, Pavlos (December 15, 2022). "Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, partners and founders of KieranTimberlake believe that 'without collective intelligence, the search for form lacks breadth and depth'". Global Design News. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  5. ^ Miller, Anna Bergren (June 27, 2014). "James Timberlake to US AEC Industry: Bring Facade Manufacturing Home". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Patton, Phil (August 7, 2003). "Smart Walls, Smart Future". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  7. ^ "SmartWrap™ Building Envelope". KieranTimberlake. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  8. ^ a b Mortice, Zach (September 5, 2008). "AIArchitect This Week | KieranTimberlake Moves Pre-Fab Into Mass-Customization". AIA. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  9. ^ Donoff, Elizabeth (October 7, 2008). "Cellophane House, New York". Architect. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  10. ^ Buckley, Bruce (March 17, 2010). "KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition". Architectural Record. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  11. ^ McKenzie, Sheena (January 16, 2018). "Billion dollar US embassy opens in London | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  12. ^ a b Dickinson, Elizabeth (December 3, 2015). "The Life Cycle of Practice". Architect. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  13. ^ Saffron, Inga (January 26, 2016). "How Architects KieranTimberlake Turned Their Office Into an "Incubator"". Metropolis. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  14. ^ "Press Release: Life Cycle Assessment App for Revit Available Now". kierantimberlake.com. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  15. ^ "'Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy'". Pentagram. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  16. ^ Stacey, Kevin (20 October 2017). "Let the move-in begin: Engineering Research Center opens its doors". Brown University. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Brown University, Engineering Research Center". BuroHappold Engineering. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  18. ^ Kennicott, Philip (2010-02-24). "KieranTimberlake to design new U.S. Embassy in London". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
  19. ^ Loblolly House Forbes
  20. ^ "KieranTimberlake Firm Award". Architecture Week. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2018.

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