KieranTimberlake explained

Services:Architecture, Sustainable Design, Interior Design, Urban Design, Planning
Area Served:International
Location City:Philadelphia
Location Country:United States
Industry:Architecture
Foundation:1984
Founder:Stephen Kieran
James Timberlake
Sam Harris

KieranTimberlake is an American architecture firm based in Philadelphia. It was founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, and Sam Harris. The firm provides architectural design and spatial planning services, as well as urban design, interior design, and materials and technology research activities. They have received many national and international awards for their work.

History

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 College's Shipley School complex.[2] Harris later left KieranTimberlake in the 1990s to run his own practice.[2] [4]

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] [5] 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.[6] Also in 2003, KieranTimberlake built a pavilion featuring the firm's Smartwrap technology at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[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] [9] The building was selected for the MoMA's exhibit due to its modular design, use of sustainable building practices, and SmartWrap.[10]

In February 2010, KieranTimberlake won the commission for the new Embassy of the United States, London.[11] In January 2018, the new embassy building in London opened.[12]

In 2015, Kieran and Timberlake authored Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water, a book investigating housing and climate change in Bangladesh.[13] The book was inspired by the graduate architecture research studio the pair taught at the University of Pennsylvania, which included a trip to Bangladesh.[13]

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.[14]

Research and development

The firm has conducted research studies on carbon reduction and sustainability which have led to the development of new building technologies and products.[15] [16] [17] One such product is customizable plastic walls called SmartWrap that cover conventional walls and provide insulation, heat, power, and light. 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.[18] It was developed (in coordination with ILC Dover and DuPont) while teaching at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and debuted at a "SmartWrap" pavilion erected at the Cooper-Hewitt in 2003.[16] [19] [20]

In 2013, KieranTimberlake developed Pointelist, a wireless sensor network.[21]

Later in 2013, KieranTimberlake developed Tally, a life cycle assessment software plug-in for the building information modeling software Autodesk Revit.[17] KieranTimberlake gifted Tally to the nonprofit organization Building Transparency in 2021, making Tally free and open access.[17]

In 2018, the firm published the app Roast, which surveys users to assess building comfort by recording perceived temperatures, brightness, and noise levels.[22] [23] Development of the app began when the firm moved into a former beer bottling plant in the summer of 2015.[22]

Selected projects

ProjectLocationStatusYear
West Middle School, The Shipley School Bryn Mawr, PACompleted1993[24]
Loblolly House Taylors Island, MDCompleted2006[25] [26]
Sidwell Friends School Middle School Renovation Washington, D.C.Completed2006[27]
Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery New Haven, CTCompleted2007[28]
Cellophane House, Museum of Modern Art Midtown Manhattan, New York CityCompleted2008[29]
Yale University Morse College and Ezra Stiles College Renovation Wellesley, MassachusettsCompleted2010[30]
Rice University Brockman Hall for Physics Houston, TexasCompleted2011[31]
University of California, San Diego Charles David Keeling Apartments San Diego, CaliforniaCompleted2011[32]
[33] |-|Dilworth Park| Philadelphia, PA|Completed|2014|[34] |-|Pound Ridge House| Pound Ridge, New York|Completed|2014|[35] |-|High Horse Ranch| Willits, California|Completed|2016|[36] |-|Embassy of the United States, London| London|Completed|2017||-|Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus East End Transformation| St. Louis, Missouri|Completed|2019|[37] [38] |-|University of California, Santa Barbara Henley Hall Institute for Energy Efficiency| Santa Barbara, CA|Completed|2020|[39] |-|Iowa State University Student Innovation Center| Ames, Iowa|Completed|2020|[40] |-|University of Washington North Campus Housing| Seattle, Washington|Completed|2021|[41] |-|Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts| Washington, D.C.|Completed|2022|[42] [43] |-|New York University John A. Paulson Center|| New York City|Completed|2023|[44] |-|Folger Shakespeare Library Renovation|| Washington, D.C.|Completed|2024|[45] [46] |-|Penn's Landing Park Pavilion|| Philadelphia, PA|Under Construction|2024|[47] |}

Selected awards

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Prendergast. John. A Passion for Putting Things Together. The Pennsylvania Gazette. April 11, 2024. November 2, 2003.
  2. News: Marchese. John. In the Future, We Will All Live in Plastic Houses Put Together in Six Weeks. Philadelphia Magazine. April 11, 2024. November 19, 2011.
  3. Web site: KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP Receives 2008 AIA Architecture Firm Award . https://web.archive.org/web/20080313140523/http://www.aia.org/press2_template.cfm?pagename=release_121307_firmaward . 2008-03-13.
  4. Web site: Samuel Y. Harris '67 . 2024-06-11 . Amherst College.
  5. News: Amperiadis. Pavlos. 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. May 15, 2024. December 15, 2022.
  6. News: Miller. Anna Bergren. James Timberlake to US AEC Industry: Bring Facade Manufacturing Home. The Architect’s Newspaper. May 15, 2024. June 27, 2014.
  7. News: Patton. Phil. Smart Walls, Smart Future. The New York Times. May 15, 2024. August 7, 2003.
  8. News: Mortice. Zach. AIArchitect This Week KieranTimberlake Moves Pre-Fab Into Mass-Customization. AIA. April 15, 2024. September 5, 2008.
  9. Web site: Kieran Timberlake Architects, USA, est. 1984 . 13 August 2024 . The Museum of Modern Art.
  10. News: Donoff. Elizabeth. Cellophane House, New York. Architect. May 21, 2024. October 7, 2008.
  11. News: Buckley. Bruce. KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition. Architectural Record. May 15, 2024. March 17, 2010.
  12. News: McKenzie. Sheena. Billion dollar US embassy opens in London CNN Politics. CNN. May 15, 2024. January 16, 2018.
  13. News: Dickinson. Elizabeth. The Life Cycle of Practice. Architect. May 21, 2024. December 3, 2015.
  14. News: Saffron. Inga. How Architects KieranTimberlake Turned Their Office Into an "Incubator". Metropolis. April 15, 2024. January 26, 2016.
  15. News: Roche . Daniel . 2024-02-27 . KieranTimberlake partner and research director Billie Faircloth is departing from the firm . 2024-06-03 . The Architect’s Newspaper.
  16. News: Goldsmith. Diane. Wrap Aims to Make Building Faster, Smarter. Washington Post. May 30, 2024. September 5, 2003.
  17. News: Gonchar. Joann. KieranTimberlake Gifts Tally Software to Environmental Non-Profit. Architectural Record. 2024-05-30. 2021-06-23.
  18. Web site: SmartWrap™ Building Envelope . 2024-06-10 . KieranTimberlake . en-us.
  19. News: Donoff. Elizabeth. Cellophane House, New York. Architect. May 21, 2024. October 7, 2008.
  20. News: Patton. Phil. Smart Walls, Smart Future. The New York Times. May 15, 2024. August 7, 2003.
  21. News: Lau. Wanda. KieranTimberlake Offers a New Tool for Architects Wanting an In on IoT. Architect Magazine. 2016-05-09.
  22. News: Campbell-Dollaghan. Kelsey. Building Is A Science. This App Lets Architects Study It. Fast Company. May 30, 2024. May 2, 2018.
  23. News: Lau. Wanda. KieranTimberlake to Launch Roast, an App for Architects to Conduct Post-Occupancy Evaluations. Architect Magazine. 2024-05-30. 2017-10-25.
  24. News: Marchese. John. In the Future, We Will All Live in Plastic Houses Put Together in Six Weeks. Philadelphia Magazine. April 11, 2024. November 19, 2011.
  25. Web site: Loblolly house. Architect. June 20, 2024. June 5, 2013.
  26. Web site: Residence, Loblolly House (2006)* . InsideInside . June 25, 2024. March 10, 2018.
  27. Web site: Sidwell Friends Middle School Renovation. June 20, 2024.
  28. Web site: Sculpture Building and Gallery, Yale University. Atelier Ten. June 20, 2024.
  29. News: Donoff. Elizabeth. Cellophane House, New York. Architect. May 21, 2024. October 7, 2008.
  30. Web site: Freeman. Belmont. Tradition for Sale. Places Journal. June 20, 2024. October 31, 2017.
  31. Web site: Sharpse. Stephen. Brockman Hall for Physics. Architect. June 20, 2024. September 14, 2011.
  32. Web site: Gangal. Sanjay. Charles David Keeling Apartments in La Jolla, California by KieranTimberlake. AECCafe. June 20, 2024. May 4, 2013.
  33. Web site: Charles David Keeling Apartments. Architect. June 20, 2024. August 20, 2013.
  34. News: Hahn . Ashley. Dilworth reopens refined: solid, smooth, and splashy . WHYY. June 25, 2024. September 9, 2014.
  35. News: Wachs. Audrey. A shiny Westchester home, designed by KieranTimberlake, reflects its woodsy surroundings. The Architect’s Newspaper. 2024-07-12. 2015-12-29.
  36. News: Amelar. Sarah. High Horse Ranch by KieranTimberlake. 2024-07-12.
  37. Web site: Keegan. Edward. East End Transformation, by KieranTimberlake, Tao + Lee Associates, BNIM, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, Mackey Mitchell Architects, Perkins Eastman, and Patterhn Ives. Architect. June 20, 2024. February 25, 2020.
  38. News: Gerfen. Katie. Washington University's East End Transformation. Architect. 2024-07-02. 2020-02-25.
  39. News: Fortmeyer. Russell . Henley Hall Institute for Energy Efficiency Offers a Lesson in Natural Ventilation . Metropolis Magazine. June 25, 2024.
  40. News: Can Yerebakan. Osman. Iowa State's Student Innovation Center Models Its Mission. Metropolis. June 20, 2024. August 31, 2022.
  41. Web site: University of Washington North Campus Housing. AIA Washington Council. June 20, 2024.
  42. News: ART AND IDEALS: PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. batwin + robin productions. 2024-06-20.
  43. News: Hahn. Fritz. A new Kennedy Center exhibition shows JFK’s love of the arts. The Washington Post. September 20, 2022.
  44. News: Klein. Kristine. KieranTimberlake and Davis Brody Bond deliver a curtain wall attuned to the needs of NYU’s mixed-use John A. Paulson Center. The Architect's Newspaper. April 7, 2023.
  45. Web site: Minutillo. Josephine. KieranTimberlake Transforms D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library Architectural Record. June 20, 2024. June 3, 2024.
  46. Web site: Kennicott . Philip . Philip Kennicott . June 21, 2024 . The world’s largest Shakespeare collection finally has the home it deserves . August 17, 2024 . Washington Post . en.
  47. Web site: Roche. Daniel Jonas. Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia’s new waterfront park by Hargreaves Jones and KieranTimberlake, broke ground. The Architect’s Newspaper. June 20, 2024. September 11, 2023.
  48. News: Hart. Sara. Seeking Innovative Alternatives . Architectural Record. August 5, 2024. October 1, 2003.
  49. News: Bustler. KieranTimberlake Wins Second Gold Medal at AIA Philadelphia's 2008 Design Awards. Bustler. August 6, 2024. October 28, 2008.
  50. Web site: Bustler. AIA Announces Winners of the 2009 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. Bustler. August 6, 2024.
  51. News: KieranTimberlake receives 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award ArchDaily. Arch Daily. August 5, 2024. September 17, 2010.
  52. News: Frearson. Amy. AIA Institute Honor Awards 2014 winners announced. Dezeen. July 18, 2024. January 13, 2014.
  53. News: 2019 AIA Housing Awards: San Joaquin Villages by SOM, LOHA, Kevin Daly Architects, Kieran Timberlake. Residential Design. August 6, 2024. May 2, 2019.
  54. News: Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake Awarded 35th Louis I. Kahn Award. Architect. July 18, 2024. October 4, 2021.
  55. News: Niland. Josh. Center for Architecture and Design to honor KieranTimberlake with its 35th Louis I. Kahn Award. Archinect. July 18, 2024. October 7, 2021.
  56. News: Kornblatt. Izzy. Schulman. Pansy. AIA Announces Winners of 2022 Architecture Awards February 15, 2022 . Architectural Record. July 18, 2024.
  57. News: East End Transformation, by KieranTimberlake, Tao + Lee Associates, BNIM, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, Mackey Mitchell Architects, Perkins Eastman, and Patterhn Ives. Architect Magazine. August 6, 2024. February 25, 2020.
  58. News: AIA Housing Awards 2024. Residential Design. August 6, 2024. June 20, 2024.
  59. News: AIA Architecture Awards 2024. Residential Design. August 6, 2024. June 20, 2024.

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