Architecture
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The Social Floor
3,300 ft²
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.
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Loop Loft
2,000 ft²
2010
The design began with a simple diagram of a zigzag translating diagonally across the large, open volume.
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Flex Studio
300 ft²
2011
The studio can be experienced as a spacious single room volume for one or be transformed to accommodate social gatherings.
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U Loft
1,600 ft²
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.
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Recipe
2,100 ft²
2011
This new food concept store was to be located in a multi-story volume on Clarendon Street in Boston’s historic Back Bay.
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Plaza at Harvard
1.8 acres
2013
The Plaza is a new gathering space for the University and local communities.
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The Trapeze Net
1 acre
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.
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CityDeck
2.5 acres
2012
The CityDeck is the heart of a multi-phase redevelopment project along Green Bay’s Fox Riverfront.
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Columbia Division of Student Affairs
14,000 ft²
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.
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Columbia Center for Student Advising
10,000 ft²
2010
An innovative interior campus houses an entirely new team-based approach to student advising.
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Chealsea District Health Center
23,600 ft²
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.
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80 Dekalb
2,600 ft²
2010
This amenity space for a Brooklyn apartment building provides a playful, welcoming extension to the residents’ living spaces.
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Soho Hotel
105,000 ft²
2008
In form, articulation, finish, and performance, the building seeks distinction by creating an architecture between earth and sky.
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459 West 18th Street
29,700 ft²
2008
Nesting black-and-white shapes reveal the zoning requirements of the Special West Chelsea District.
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Hudson Yards I
450,000 ft²
2008
While opportunities and dreams may be seem limitless in New York, land is not.
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Maine State Pier
3.5 acres
2007
A large-scale, multi-modal business and leisure park to replace Portland’s currently dilapidated Maine State Pier.
Writing
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Metropolis Magazine Article
“How Yale Professor Robert Reed Built Equity in Art and Architecture Classrooms”
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The Formal Playground: Collaboration & Innovation in Robert Reed’s Pedagogy
Coming soon… conference proceedings with full paper from April 2021, NCBDS 36.
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Hyperdimensional Investigations
Robert Reed’s Curriculum and the Legacy of the Bauhaus Pedagogy
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Spaces for Creative Production
This paper explores the relationship between spaces for experimental theatrical production and the adaptive reuse of architectural spaces.
Research
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Exhibition: On/Of Paper
“On/Of Paper: Work by the Faculty of Architecture at Penn State,” December 2019 – March 2020
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Robert Reed Drawing Workshops @ NYC
March 23, 2019
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Robert Reed Drawing Workshops @ Penn State
February 21-24, 2019
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Drawing Laboratory: The Pedagogy of Robert Reed
January-February, 2019 @ Rouse Gallery & March, 2019 @ Hunter College MFA Studios
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Subjective Spaces: Drawings and Collages by Robert Reed
Exhibition at the Palmer Museum of Art
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Recent Drawings
Recent Month Long Drawings. More updates to come!
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Axonometric Space
This research seeks to understand how axonometric drawings have been the tool of choice at different moments in history.
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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.
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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.
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Daily Drawings Composites
These are composites of the Daily Drawing series preceding the Borland Residency and in reverse chronological order.
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Periodic Drawings 2016
Completed in tandem with the Daily Drawings, these are larger, heavily layered drawings completed over the course of a month […]
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Daily Drawings
Week of 07.21.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 07.14.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 07.07.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 06.30.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 06.23.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 06.16.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 06.09.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 06.02.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 05.26.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 05.12.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 04.14.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 04.07.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 03.31.2014
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Daily Drawings
Week of 03.24.2014
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Daily Drawings
Round One
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13.3% Exhibition
“13.3% is an exasperated reply to those who say: ‘there are no women making architecture.’”