QUESTION: What were you doing before you started school?
KEVIN: Working for an architecture and engineering firm in Hickory, North Carolina doing design for military bases. I
was in charge of detailing. It was a cool job, but didn't really offer opportunity for creativity, since the client was the military.
Q: If you
could visit one piece of architecture, what would it be?
Kevin: Chicken point cabin, by Tom Kundig. I really like how he engages
the site and his choice of materials.
I also like the scale of the project and how he connects you to nature using industrial
materials. Really interested in
how he makes industrial materials very normal and warm, one with nature.
Q: What's your favorite
tool in the shop?
Kevin: Oh man, the band saw.
That’s really the only tool I know how to use and I’m freaking awesome
at it.
Q: What was the last
thing you cut on the laser cutter?
Kevin: A piece of plexi for my painstaking Charleston city model…
Q: What's a class you’re excited about taking in the future?
Kevin: Structures. That was one
of my favorite classes at App State, everything I was exposed to then
really interested me. The
structural side of architecture, the engineering side of it really interests me. I can’t wait to learn about it.
Q: What's your preferred method of procrastination?
Kevin: Ah. It’s very
involved. It’s a whole
process. I stare off a lot and
think of very unrelated things, I’m a day dreamer. I sometimes just leave to try and find inspiration to motivate me to get back
to do things. While I’m gone
there’s really no telling. Sometimes I go
home and play some music, which gets me back into thinking about order and
creativity.
Q: Do you have any hidden talents?
Kevin: I’m not sure it's a hidden talent, but I am a pianist.
I play piano at a hotel in Chapel Hill three hours a week. It’s the perfect studio job because it doesn’t require that many
hours and I'm doing something that completely relaxes me. Piano gets me away from work, lets me take a step back and think about
creativity, as I'm creating things audibly instead of visually.
Q: Auto-cad,
revit or illustrator for plans?
Kevin: Auto-cad.
Q: What's your favorite
non-architecture book?
Kevin: The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell.
Q: Favorite
architecture book?
Kevin: Pamphlet Architecture 16, Elizabeth Martin. When I'm sitting on my porch, want quick
inspiration, it’s there.
Q: If you
could work for one architect living or dead, who would it be?
Kevin: Santiago Calatrava + Bryan McKay Lyons
Thanks so much, Kevin!
-AGSA
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