Architecture

The Social Floor

Residential
3,300 ft²
State College, PA
2017

The renovation of a 1955 Modernist house recasts its grand central space as the kitchen and dining room, the energetic hub of family activity.

Loop Loft

Residential
2,000 ft²
Brooklyn, NY
2010

The design began with a simple diagram of a zigzag translating diagonally across the large, open volume.

Flex Studio

Residential
300 ft²
New York, NY
2011

The studio can be experienced as a spacious single room volume for one or be transformed to accommodate social gatherings.

U Loft

Residential
1,600 ft²
New York, NY
2008

Before renovation, this Flat Iron District loft’s finest characteristic was also its major limitation. A north facing wall of three soaring, arched windows – while an asset – was the only source of natural light.

Recipe

Commercial
2,100 ft²
Boston, MA
2011

This new food concept store was to be located in a multi-story volume on Clarendon Street in Boston’s historic Back Bay.

Plaza at Harvard

Landscape
1.8 acres
Cambridge, MA
2013

The Plaza is a new gathering space for the University and local communities.

The Trapeze Net

Public Park
1 acre
Queens, NY
2016

The New York State Pavilion re-imagined as a social, buoyant place for exceptional outdoor art installations. Entry for the New York State Pavilion Ideas Competition.

CityDeck

Landscape
2.5 acres
Green Bay, WI
2012

The CityDeck is the heart of a multi-phase redevelopment project along Green Bay’s Fox Riverfront.

Columbia Division of Student Affairs

Institutional
14,000 ft²
New York, NY
2009

The Division of Student Affairs creates a space in which to guide and enrich students’ academic experience as well as their lives in New York.

Columbia Center for Student Advising

Institutional
10,000 ft²
New York, NY
2010

An innovative interior campus houses an entirely new team-based approach to student advising.

Chealsea District Health Center

Institutional
23,600 ft²
New York, NY
2010

The goal of the renovation is to make the clinic more welcoming and easily navigable and to create an image consistent with the level of care offered.

80 Dekalb

Residential
2,600 ft²
Brooklyn, NY
2010

This amenity space for a Brooklyn apartment building provides a playful, welcoming extension to the residents’ living spaces.

Soho Hotel

Commercial
105,000 ft²
New York, NY
2008

In form, articulation, finish, and performance, the building seeks distinction by creating an architecture between earth and sky.

459 West 18th Street

Residential
29,700 ft²
New York, NY
2008

Nesting black-and-white shapes reveal the zoning requirements of the Special West Chelsea District.

Hudson Yards I

Mixed Use
450,000 ft²
New York, NY
2008

While opportunities and dreams may be seem limitless in New York, land is not.

Maine State Pier

Landscape
3.5 acres
Portland, ME
2007

A large-scale, multi-modal business and leisure park to replace Portland’s currently dilapidated Maine State Pier.

Writing

Research

exhibition

Exhibition: On/Of Paper

“On/Of Paper: Work by the Faculty of Architecture at Penn State,” December 2019 – March 2020

Robert Reed Drawing Workshops @ NYC

March 23, 2019

Robert Reed Drawing Workshops @ Penn State

February 21-24, 2019

Drawing Laboratory: The Pedagogy of Robert Reed

January-February, 2019 @ Rouse Gallery & March, 2019 @ Hunter College MFA Studios

Subjective Spaces: Drawings and Collages by Robert Reed

Exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art

Recent Drawings

Recent Month Long Drawings. More updates to come!

Axonometric Space

This research seeks to understand how axonometric drawings have been the tool of choice at different moments in history.

Borland Drawings

During my residency at the Borland Project Space, each day I completed one 6×9 daily drawing and each week I completed one 18×24 drawing.

Borland Project Space Residency

This residency explored duration in architectural space – the influence of memory and the potential to design for change – through a series of iterative drawings.

Daily Drawings Composites

These are composites of the Daily Drawing series preceding the Borland Residency and in reverse chronological order.

Periodic Drawings 2016

Completed in tandem with the Daily Drawings, these are larger, heavily layered drawings completed over the course of a month […]

Daily Drawings

Week of 07.21.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 07.14.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 07.07.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 06.30.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 06.23.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 06.16.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 06.09.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 06.02.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 05.26.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 05.12.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 04.14.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 04.07.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 03.31.2014

Daily Drawings

Week of 03.24.2014

Daily Drawings

Round One

13.3% Exhibition

“13.3% is an exasperated reply to those who say: ‘there are no women making architecture.’”

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