KEVIN HART ARCHITECTURE | 98 Battery Street Suite 202 | San Francisco California 94111 |
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Kevin Hart AIA |
I grew up in Rochester,
New York, and was serially introduced to architecture by my engineer
father; by Robert Lloyd, my teacher at Andover; and by Matt Kahn, who
taught design at Stanford. At North Carolina State University, Vernon
Shogren and Duncan Stuart taught me how to pursue the meanings of forms
and the methods to explore them. At Yale I studied with Cesar Pelli, and then worked in his firm in New Haven for eleven years. Cesar is a great teacher and mentor, and his office is a wonderful place to train and work. Cesar's buildings at Rice, Princeton, and the University of Washington were my preoccupations, along with the Carnegie Hall Tower in Manhattan. In San Francisco, as a partner at SMWM, I designed projects for businesses, schools and universities; and did research on the design principles that distinguish great academic campuses. I am still a fanatic devotee of these particularly American environments. In ten years at Gensler, Dennis Schmidt and I grew a studio and a portfolio of architectural work for the firm's San Francisco office. We designed and built office buildings, campuses, a Jewish Community Center, the Moscone West convention center, a university residence hall, an urban hotel, an exhibition hall, a residential tower, a pedestrian bridge, a treehouse, and an unprecedented intervention in the Presidio National Park. It was exhilarating, and greatly instructive, to work at large and small scale in such a variety of circumstances. In 2005 I started the firm, with three courageous clients and the versatile genius of Tim Morshead, now an Associate and vital collaborator on everything we do. We work personally, intensively, on a few special projects, design in close collaboration with our clients, and try to make buildings that make a difference to the people who use them and to their communities. -KH |
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