Gordon Kipping
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Gordon Kipping is a native of Toronto, Canada who has been living and working in New York City since 1995. After completing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in engineering in 1989 at the University of Toronto, Gordon Kipping worked as a mechanical engineer in building services, eventually attaining licensure as a Professional Engineer in 1993. In 1991, he returned to school to study architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he received a Master of Architecture degree in 1995.
Since graduation, Gordon Kipping has worked for the offices of Philip Johnson, Greg Lynn, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Davis Brody Bond. Coinciding with his employment in architectural offices, Kipping produced conceptual and built work under the name G TECTS.
As G TECTS, he authored a book entitled "Ordinary Diagrams: Electronic Information Technologies and Architecture"[1], (1995 & 1997) and had a solo exhibition at StoreFront For Art and Architecture entitled Residual Urban Site Strategies, (1998). The book was cited in the Terence Riley essay "The Un-Private House"[2] accompanying the Museum of Modern Art show of the same name. Comparisons were drawn between the over-exposure produced by glass in the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the similar effect in a G TECTS proposed house as facilitated by electronic information technologies.[1] The book and a print edition of its final plate "Entity as Information Zoom" are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Gordon Kipping is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Columbia University where he teaches an advanced design studio and regularly assists Frank Gehry in teaching a design studio at the School of Architecture at Yale University.
Currently, Kipping is working on a forthcoming multi-media publication entitled Home Entertainment – Home Broadcast expected to be completed in 2008. Since 1999, Kipping has been dedicated to G TECTS, focusing on projects for a number of institutions, corporations and private individuals.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Kipping, G., Ordinary Diagrams: Electronic Information Technologies and Architecture". Public Access Press, 1995
- ^ Riley, T., "The Un-Private House". The Museum of Modern Art, 1999
