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Jeffrey Kipnis (born 1951,
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) is an American architectural critic, theorist, designer, film-maker,
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, and educator.


Education, honors, and career

Not a registered architect, Kipnis first came to prominence through his association with Bahram Shirdel, and Peter Eisenman (and their joint collaboration with French philosopher Jacques Derrida). Kipnis holds a master's degree in physics from
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, USA (1981), and in 2006, he was awarded an honorary diploma by the Architectural Association School of Architecture,
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, in recognition of his contributions to the discipline of architecture as a teacher, critic, and theorist. Other honors include the AIA (Georgia Chapter) Bronze Medal for Service to Architecture (1985), a Professional Development Award from the Architectural Society of Ohio Foundation (1992), and an
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Distinguished Research Award (2005). He is professor of architecture at the
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, Columbus, Ohio, USA. He has been a visiting professor at
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,
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, New York, the Southern California Institute of Architecture,
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, the
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Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, and a guest professor of Urban Strategies - a postgraduate program at the Institute of Architecture (IoA),
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(Angewandte Kunst). Kipnis taught at the
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from 1992 to 1995, where he was the founding director of the Graduate Design Program. He also curates Architecture and Design at the
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in Columbus, Ohio. As a critic he has written for many different periodicals, including '' Assemblage'', ''
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'', '' Architectural Design'', ''
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'', and '' Quaderns''.


Designer

As a designer, Kipnis collaborated with architects Reiser + Umemoto (RUR Architects) on the Water Garden in Columbus, Ohio (which won a 1998 PA Design Award) and the Kansai-kan National Diet Library. During the 1990s he collaborated with the Iranian architect Bahram Shirdel on the design of influential projects such as the Scottish National Museum, Montreal Urban Design 1990-2000, and Place Jacques Cartier.


Select bibliography

* Kipnis, Jeffrey. ''In The Manor of Nietzsche'', Calluna Farms Press, New York, 1990. * Kipnis, Jeffrey and Thomas Leeser (ed), ''Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman'', New York, Monacelli Press, 1997. * Kipnis, Jeffrey. "Twisting the Separatrix," in K. Michael Hays (ed), ''Architectural Theory Since 1968'', Cambridge, MIT Press, 1998. Assemblage''_14,_1992). *_Kipnis,_Jeffrey_and_Philip_Johnson.html" ;"title="riginally published in '' Assemblage'' 14, 1992). * Kipnis, Jeffrey and Philip Johnson">riginally published in '' Assemblage'' 14, 1992). * Kipnis, Jeffrey and Philip Johnson, "A Conversation around the Avant-Garde" in Robert Somol (ed), ''Autonomy and Ideology: Positioning an Avant-garde in America'', New York, Monacelli Press, 1997. * Kipnis, Jeffrey. "Against Two Gravities," in ''Get Off of My Cloud: The Texts of Coop Himmelblau 1968-2005'', Hatje Cantz, 2005. * Kipnis, Jeffrey. "What we need here is -- failure to communicate!!" ''Quaderns'' 245 (April 2005): 94-100. * Kipnis, Jeffrey. "Some Thoughts on Contemporary Paintings in the Hope that Analogies to Architecture Might be Drawn." ''Hunch'' 9, Rotterdam, 2005. * Kipnis, Jeffey. "The Cunning of Cosmetics." ''Herzog & de Meuron: El Croquis'' 84, Madrid, Spain, 1997. * Kipnis, Jeffey. "Toward a New Architecture." ''AD: Folding and Pliancy'', Academy Editions, London, 1993. * Kipnis, Jeffey. "Architecture: The Sacred and the Suspect." ''Journal of Architectural Education'', ACSA, Washington DC, 1987. * Kipnis, Jeffey. "Drawing a Conclusion." ''Perspecta'' 22, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986.


References


Faculty page at Ohio State

Interview with Jeffrey Kipnis
* (partial bibliography)
Page at Quiz Bowl Wiki
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