Architect Stephen Kieran, FAAR’81, FAIA, spent his fellowship time in Rome and beyond observing, sketching, and photographing architecture, urbanism, and landscape, yielding over 3,000 drawings that describe spatial strategies such as, “How do you turn a corner?” or “How do you sit a building into a hillside?” Join Stephen for his lecture Carrying Rome as he discusses how the sketches he made thirty years ago remain relevant today.

Stephen Kieran is a partner at KieranTimberlake, an internationally recognized architecture firm noted for its integration of research and practice guided by a deep environmental ethic. The firm has received over one hundred design citations including the 2008 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, and the 2010 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture from the Smithsonian Institution. Kieran has coauthored several books, including refabricating Architecture, Cellophane House™, and KieranTimberlake: Inquiry. In addition to his architectural practice he teaches a graduate research studio at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. He has also held professorships at the University of Washington, Yale University, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University.

The Home from Rome series is made possible by the new New Initiatives for Don Fund, a gift of Maria R. Cox.