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Karen Lewis
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

klewis@uky.edu
859-257-9415


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Expertise & Research Interest

Designs and design competitions that combine architecture and landscape architecture, emphasizing program and community, infrastructure, and memorable place-making.

Keywords: Infrastructure, Infrastructural Urbanism, Logistics, Factories, Graphic Design Branding / Identity Typography Signage

Education

 

Awards, Honors, Professional Registration & Certification




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Memory Trail: Flight 93 Memorial Competition, Designed with Jason Kentner, MLA; E. Lynn Miller, MLA, and Fritz Steiner, Hon. MLA



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110% Juice: Designing Renewable Wind Power in Cape Cod, design project with Jason Kentner, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Ohio State University

EWR / NJT / PNY: Service and Distribution Centers at the Port of New York and New Jersey, Masters Thesis, Harvard Design School. Advisors: Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte

Stock Exchange: Designing the Bluegrass Stockyard. Research-based studio which has resulted in an ongoing researchproject on the design of logistics and waste.
Kentucky Cattlemen's Association Bluegrass Stockyards

Yellow Town: The Graphic Design of Urgency