Sidwell Friends Meeting House, photo ©Michael Moran/OTTO

The Quaker Meeting House at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC is featured in the March/April 2012 issue of GreenSource Magazine. This renovation of a non-descript 1950s gymnasium into a Quaker Meeting House and Arts Center addresses three fundamental challenges; transformation of the vast pedestrian space of the gym into a contemplative space for worship, enhancement of overall campus planning objectives, and the establishment of a welcoming and symbolically important front door to the campus. It is the most recently completed project envisioned in a 2001 master plan by KieranTimberlake for Sidwell Friends School, which outlines a phased transformation of the disparate buildings on two campuses into a physical manifestation of the school’s values, founded in the Quaker principle of environmental stewardship. Continue Reading »

Our new book KieranTimberlake: Inquiry has been selected as one of Phil Patton’s favorite books of 2011! Patton writes about design and cars for The New York Times. View the list here, and take a look inside the book here.

Cover image: Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, photo by Barry Halkin

KieranTimberlake is happy to announce the release of a new monograph, KieranTimberlake: Inquiry, written by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, and Karl Wallick, and published by Rizzoli. The book is a reflection on the last decade of inquisitive approaches to our clients’ needs, as well as the needs of the environment, and how that has broadened our vision of the relationship between process, craft, and form. This volume offers a glimpse into how the environment, energy, the economics of construction, and processes of collaboration inform KieranTimberlake’s practice.

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Please join us on October 5 at 5:30 PM for a lecture and book launch reception at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, to celebrate the release of KieranTimberlake: Inquiry. The book will be available in stores beginning September 20, 2011.

Visit the Athenaeum of Philadelphia website for more information about the lecture and to purchase tickets.

KieranTimberlake is pleased to announce a new book, Cellophane House™

Released in January 2011 as a digital book, it is now offered in paperback, available for purchase on Amazon.com and at select bookstores worldwide including:

AIA Bookstore, Philadelphia
Builders Bookstore, Berkeley
Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles
Joseph Fox Bookstore, Philadelphia
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
National Building Museum Shop, Washington DC
Peter Miller Books, Seattle
Quimby’s, Chicago
RIBA Bookshop, London
Wexner Center Store, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
William Stout, San Francisco

With 110 illustrations and detailed commentary, the book chronicles the design and execution of a five-story, off-site fabricated home assembled on-site in just sixteen days as part of The Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Through a series of questions, the book explores several of KieranTimberlake’s ongoing research agendas including speed of on-site assembly, design for disassembly, a holistic approach to the life cycle of materials, and the development of a lightweight, high-performance, energy gathering building envelope.

PAPERBACK | 156 pages | 5.875” x 8.25” | 110 color illustrations | ISBN: 978-0-9831301-3-0 | $20 US | May 2011

Also available electronically on Amazon, iBooks and Google Books. Compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Android, Mac and PC  | $9.99 US | Jan 2011