ROBERT LOUIS KELLY
Instructor, School of Architecture
rlkarc@uky.edu
859-327-5745
Expertise & Research Interest
- Design Pedagogy
- Urban Design
- Le Corbusier
- Michelangelo
- Medieval & Renaissance Studies
- Hands-on Making/Material Explorations
- Town/Gown Issues
Education and Practice Experience
- Doctor of Philosophy in the History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University
- Master of Architecture II, Florence Italy Center, Syracuse University
- Bachelor of Architecture, University of Kentucky
Awards, Honors, Professional Registration & Certification
- Site Rehabilitation Award, Westlund Residence, Historic Preservation Commission, Lexington, KY
- Honor Award for Excellence in Architectural Design, Cullman & Clark Farm, American Institute of Architects, KY Chapter.
- Registered Architect
- NCARB certification
Memberships
- University Neighborhood Advisory Council
- Lexington Town and Gown Commission
- Society of Architectural Historians
Selected Publications/Creative Scholarship
- "Recollections and Projections on the Incomplete Work," Fresh Air, Proceedings from the 95th ACSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
- "Play, Three-Dimensional Hermeneutics, and Architecture," Translations: From Understanding to Misreading and Back Again, Proceedings from the 23rd Annual Conference on the Beginning Design Student, edited by Conrad Rathmann, Savannah College of Art and Design Press, 2007.
- "Parts to the Whole," Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields of Inquiry, Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference of the Beginning Design Student, edited by Igor Marjanovic and Clare Robinson, Iowa State University Press. Ames, 2006.
- "An Unlikely Confluence: The Bachelor of Architecture Degree at the University of Kentucky (1964 - 2003)" Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, April 2006.
- "Speculations on the forma ovale in Michelangelo′s First Project for the Tomb of Julius II."
Southeast Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Knoxville, October 2004.
Projects
MASH UP
The assembly of an emergency debate space through an interdisciplinary design collaboration. Two studios of second year students, one from architecture and one from interior design, at the University of Kentucky are collaborating in the production of a MASH UP: Mobile / Migrant, Adaptable / Architectural, Space / Shelter / Studio, Hull / Habitat, Unit / Universal / Unum, Production / Project. With Interior Design Faculty, Lena Nalbach.
Recollections and Projections on the Incomplete Work.
Session chair, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2007.
House for a Musician and a Theoretical Physicist, Lexington, Kentucky.