Dr. Kevin Cannon

Biography

Kevin Cannon is a co-founder of Cannon Architecture Studio based in New York City. He is a registered architect in New York State and a member of the American Institute of Architects, as well as a LEED-accredited professional. Currently, he is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches graduate design studios. He has also been a guest critic at academic institutions such as Pratt Institute, Columbia, Syracuse, NJIT, and Georgia Tech. Kevin's academic approach is comparative and analytical, rooted in a research-oriented idea of place, which examines how new forms transform the meaning of spaces. He encourages students to explore the construction of meaning with an emphasis on phenomenological experience, materiality, and detail. Before founding Cannon Architecture Studio, he led design teams at several prestigious firms, including Gensler, FXFOWLE, KPF, and Selldorf Architects, where he served as a design director and senior design architect, contributing to a wide variety of project scales and typologies, from highly crafted private residential projects to large-scale transportation projects and complex mixed-use commercial developments both domestically and internationally. Kevin holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Georgia Institute of Technology.

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