Stephen Kieran is a founding partner of the firm. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 1980-81. Both Kieran and Timberlake were inaugural recipients of the prestigious Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research from the AIA College of Fellows in 2001. Recently, KieranTimberlake received the 2008 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor bestowed on a firm by the American Institute of Architects.
Mr. Kieran is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, and Endowed Professor in Sustainability at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has served as Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University, Max Fisher Chair at the University of Michigan, and has taught at Princeton University. He has co-authored two books: Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2002, and refabricating Architecture, published by McGraw Hill in 2004, which examines how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction. The partners’ latest book, Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, is a case study of a single building which shows a way forward to quality, productivity and sustainability.
Mr. Kieran served as the Design Partner for the Middle School at Sidwell Friends, the Loblolly House, Berkeley, Pierson, Davenport and Silliman residential college renovations and the Sculpture Building and Gallery at Yale University. He is currently the Design Partner for the Morse and Stiles Colleges Addition and Renovation at Yale, a new Meeting House and Arts Center at Sidwell Friends School and the new Northwest Campus Student Housing complex at UCLA in collaboration with Pfeiffer Partners.
Stephen Kieran, FAIA
James Timberlake, FAIA
