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RECENT NEWS

20 May
Productive discussions in Amsterdam with Rob Henderson, Joerg Petri, and Filippo Lodi revolving around the expansion of UNStudio's Knowledge Platforms and the potentials of an open-source architecture office. Looking forward to the development of this program.
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16 May
Kyle Miller presents "Translations: Digital and Physical Interchanges" at the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers held in Oslo, Norway. The presentation was developed from a paper co-authored with Clark Thenhaus.
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10 May
I'm very excited to share that I will be joining Syracuse University's School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor of Architecture. I'm thankful for all of the opportunities that I have been given at the University of Kentucky College of Design and am looking forward to new challenges next fall in New York.

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6 May
Kyle Miller has been named the School of Architecture "Teacher of the Year" at the University of Kentucky College of Design. Congratulations to Clyde Carpenter, who was named the School of Architecture "Professor of the Year".
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23 April
Final design studio review today. I will be joined by Michael Speaks, David Biagi, Mike McKay, Akari Takebayashi, Jason Scroggin, and Greg Luhan from the University of Kentucky College of Design to review the design work produced by my students during the spring term architectural design studio. Clark Thenhaus, from the University of Colorado - Denver, will be joining the group as a guest critic.
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22 April
Traveling to Columbus, joined by Jeffrey Kipnis, Matias del Campo, Kristy Balliet, Ty Osbaugh, and Ben Goodman next week at OSU to review work from a design studio led by Justin Diles. Information on all reviews at the Knowlton School of Architecture and the poster can be found HERE.
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1 April
"Active Models: Digital and Physical Interchanges", a paper I am writing on the role of interactive technology in architectural design has been accepted for the eCAADe 2013 conference, to be held this September in Delft at the Delft University of Technology. The conference website can be viewed HERE.
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14 March
Two recent projects, Changing the Face and Thick Skin, have been selected to be included in the 2013 AIA Center for Emerging Professionals Annual Exhibition at the AIA National Headquarters in Washington, DC. The work is on display through April. The press release can be found HERE.
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11 March
The Active Models group from the Possible Mediums conference has been featured on suckerPUNCH. The post can be can be found HERE.
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19 February
The Possible Mediums conference has been featured in Domus. An excellent writeup from Matt Shaw can be found HERE.
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10 February
Possible Mediums happened. Thank you to Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, and Adam Fure for co-curating this event with me. Thank you to Jimenez Lai, Thomas Kelley, Angela Co, Michael Young, David Freeland, Brennan Buck, Justin Diles, Ellie Abrons, Michael Loverich, Andrew Holder, Jason Kelly Johnson, Simon Kim, Mariana Ibañez, and Andrew Atwood for leading workshops and participating in the panel discussions.


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10 January
Announcing Possible Mediums, a conference co-hosted by the University of Kentucky, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the University of Michigan, and The Ohio State University. I will serve as a conference chair alongside Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, and Adam Fure. The conference website can be found HERE.
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9 January
Course instruction begins at the University of Kentucky College of Design. This semester I will be teaching two second-year courses: an architectural design studio and a lecture course on material and structural concepts.
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11 December
Final advanced architectural design elective review today. I will be joined by Michael Speaks, Mike McKay, Dima Stakovsky, Angela Co, Michael Mead, and Rives Rash to review the design work produced by my students. More information on this course can be found HERE.


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4 December
Final design studio review today. I will be joined by Anne Filson, Jason Scroggin, Angela Co, Julia Smyth-Pinney, and Brian Richter to review the design work produced by my students during the fall term architectural design studio. Thomas Kelley, from the University of Illinois-Chicago, will be joining the group as a guest critic.
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3 December
Final review week at the University of Kentucky College of Design begins. Throughout the week, I will review student work from studios led by Gary Rohrbacher, Mike McKay, Marty Summers, Angela Co, Anne Filson, and Michael Mead.
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28 November
In Columbus, joined by Beth Blostein to review the student work from a design studio at the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture led by Kristy Balliet. Thank you for the invitation, Kristy!
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12 November
Kyle Miller lectures at the University of Colorado - Denver on his most recent design projects and design research on contemporary ornamentation, non-cognitive architectural engagement, and applications of interaction technology within architecture. Information on this event can be found HERE.
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11 November
Two-day design and fabrication workshop with architecture students at the University of Colorado - Denver concludes. Thank you to the students who participated in the workshop and to Clark Thenhaus for organizing the event.


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1 November
Kyle Miller and Marty Summers lecture on contemporary, kinetic facade systems at the AIA Kentucky / AIA Indiana Annual Convention at the Lexington Convention Center. The talk features recent architectural design research from Kyle Miller and both built and unbuilt projects that Marty contributed to while working at Morphosis.
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23 October
An update from my elective course on incorporating interactive design technology into architectural design, speculating on new forms of engagement through responsive surfaces and spaces. See HERE. Thank you Angela Co and Michael Mead for participating in a review of the work.
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21 October
Two-day design workshop with architecture students at Kent State University was a great success! Thank you to the students and faculty who participated. Part two of this workshop will take place in Denver in a few weeks, from November 9th to 11th.


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12 October
Weekend studio trip to Chicago begins. In addition to visiting the office of Studio Gang and taking the CAF river cruise, we will visit Crown Hall, OMA's IIT Campus Center, the Rookery, the Monadnock Building, Federal Plaza, The Art Institute, and Millennium Park.
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10 October
Neil Denari visits Kyle Miller's second year undergraduate architectural design studio for a short discussion about architectural forms, brick buildings, fire stations on the corner, sketching, cataloging architectural images, cones, cylinders, squircles, Bézier curves, and waking the fuck up! Thank you for your time, Neil.
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08 September
Kyle Miller has been invited to lecture at the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado in Denver. The lecture will take place on November 12th and will be preceded by a weekend workshop with a group of students enrolled in a digital fabrication course instructed by Clark Thenhaus.
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04 September
Kyle Miller's paper titled "A Critique of the Sweet Genius: Alibis for Contemporary Architectural Investigations" has been accepted to the 7th Int'l Conference on Design Principles and Practices to be held in Japan next March.
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04 September
The "Organized Crime" course blog will go active this week. The blog will document research on interactive design technology and feature interactive design prototypes. Please check back often for updates. The active blog can be found HERE.
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18 August
Kyle Miller has been invited to lecture at Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design on October 19th. Following the lecture, a three-day workshop on topological terrains will take place.
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25 July
Representing the College of Design, Kyle Miller presents "Innovation in Architectural Design" to the University of Kentucky's iNet I-Academy participants.
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13 July
Pushkinsky Cinema Facade design has been published on suckerPUNCH. The web feature can be viewed HERE.
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08 July
Over the coming weeks, in addition to all architectural design project images and student work being loaded to this new website, design studio resources for students at the UK College of Design will populate the Design Studio Resources section. If you would like access to these resources, please e-mail me at kyle.miller@uky.edu.
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05 July
Kyle Miller has been selected to deliver a lecture, titled "Organized Crime", at the 2012 AIA Kentucky / AIA Indiana Annual Convention, hosted in Lexington at the Lexington Convention Center in November. Information on the annual event can be found HERE.
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25 June
Kyle Miller and Rives Rash instruct a workshop on digital design and fabrication for a group of students from Shanghai University. Images of the student work and documentation of the event can be found HERE.


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11 June
"Pushkinsky Cinema Facade" is included in the UCLA AUD Alumni Exhibition held in Los Angeles during the week of June 11th as part of UCLA’s annual student presentation and exhibition event, RUMBLE.
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1 June
Welcome to the new website for eightyeight-west.