Robert Kirkbride, Corresponding Editor of the Nexus Network Journal

Robert Kirkbride is a Corresponding Editor for the Nexus Network Journal.

Robert Kirkbride
Corresponding Editor, Nexus Network Journal

Areas of study: Geometries of Architectural Rhetoric
(memory, ornament, visual and verbal figuration)
Geographic area: Eastern North America

Robert Kirkbride is the director of studio 'patafisico and an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design. His work has been exhibited and published widely, appearing in Vogue, Chora 4, and the film XX/XY. He has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy, and is an editorial board member of the Italian-based Nexus Network Journal and commissioning editor for Alphabet City. His recent book, Architecture and Memory (Columbia University Press: 2008), received the Gutenberg-e Prize from the American Historical Association: it is openly navigable at http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kirkbride/. Kirkbride lives in New York City with his wife, composer Melissa Grey.