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 (Ph.D., McGill University; M.Arch, BA, University of Pennsylvania) is director of studio 'patafisico and a fulltime faculty member of Parsons The New School for Design, where he coordinates thesis year in the Product Design Department. In addition to scholarly research, his design investigations include architecture, ecological land planning, furniture and installations, and have been exhibited and published widely. Kirkbride has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), and architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation (Genoa, Italy). His dissertation on the mutual influences of architecture and memory in the Renaissance studioli of Federico da Montefeltro received the Gutenberg-e Prize from the American Historical Association and will be published by Columbia University Press (2007). Kirkbride lives in New York City.