“MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS”
Architecture today is dangerously close to becoming “content” instead of consequence, images instead of interventions. We celebrate form while forgetting where it comes from, how it’s made, or whether it actually works. KPF Principal Trent Tesch and Senior Associate Principal Anna Pietrzak will discuss how a meaningful architectural practice doesn’t decorate a site but interrogates it. The real question isn’t whether architecture is beautiful, but whether it is accountable.
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) was founded in 1976 in New York City by partners A. Eugene “Gene” Kohn, William “Bill” Pedersen, and Sheldon “Shelly” Fox. Gene and Shelley, former classmates at the University of Pennsylvania, had worked together at the New York City office of Warnecke and Associates where Gene was President, and Bill, who had previously worked with I.M. Pei, had been hired as head designer. With the 1970s recession continuing to impact architecture firms around the country, the three men decided to leave Warnecke and form their own practice. www.kpf.com/careers
