Award-winning architect and educator Brian Healy will be the next guest lecturer of the 2008-2009 academic year sponsored by the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design. He will present

Commonplaces: Thinking About an American Architecture

at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, in the Little Theatre of the K-State Student Union. The event is open to the public without charge.

Brian Healy was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the Yale School of Architecture where he was Editor of Perspecta 19: the Yale Architectural Journal and received the H. I. Feldman Prize in Design and the William Wirt Winchester Traveling Fellowship. He established his architectural practice in Boston in 1986.

He is the recipient of fellowships for residency at the American Academy in Rome; the MacDowell Art Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; and the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California. He received the Dinkeloo Fellowship from the Van Allen Institute and was the Visiting Artist in Residence at Amherst College during the spring of 2007.

Healy has taught design studios at the Yale School of Architecture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Dartmouth College, the University of Florida, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, the Pennsylvania State University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) from 2000-2005. He was the BSA 2004 president and a member of the Design Advisory Panel for the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts. He is co-founder and co-coordinator of the Architectural Research Grant Program of the BSA and a member of the National Register of Peer Professionals in the General Service Administration’s Design Excellence Program.

Brian Healy Architects received first place in the competitions for The Mill Center for the Arts in Hendersonville, North Carolina (2005), a Children’s Chapel at the Korean Church of Boston (2004) as well as Chicago’s Design Competition for Mixed Income Housing (2000). The firm was a finalist in a competition for a new Civic Center in Lake Elsinore, California (2007), and also finalists in the NEA Competitions for an Intergenerational Learning Center on the Southside of Chicago (2003); Innovations in Community Design and Housing for Long Beach, California (2003); and the design of a visitors’ center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New York (2001). Healy was selected for inclusion in the Emerging Voices Series of the New York Architectural League (1999), the Forty under Forty compilation of emerging architects and designers (1996), and the Young Architect Award from Progressive Architecture (1990).

The firm’s work has been recognized for design excellence from the Progressive Architecture Design Award Program, Business Week/Architectural Record, the Boston Society of Architects, the New England Society of Architects, the New York American Institute of Architects, the New Jersey Society of Architects and I.D. magazine.

Their projects have also been featured in a monograph of Casas International as well as Abitare, Global Architecture, Architecture magazine, Architectural Record, TIME, Dwell, Esquire, Progressive Architecture, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune,  Streetwise and numerous other publications.

Professional Architectural Registration has been granted from Massachusetts, Florida, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Attendance at the lecture can be submitted as continuing education credit by design professionals by contacting Diane Potts. This lecture is funded by the K-State Student Fine Arts Fee.

For more information, contact:
Peter Magyar, 785.532.5953
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090