KEN TRACY

Education

kentracy@yocy.us

917.370.7780

6216 Northwood Ave. #3

St. Louis MO 63105

Masters in Architecture, Columbia University, GSAPP, 2002-2005 Bachelor of Design, University of Florida, School of Architecture, 1996-2000 Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Academic

Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Graduate School of Architecture
Coordinator, Design Studio II, Introducing new Digital Curriculum, Spring 2012 Coordinator, Design Sudio IV, Introducing new Digital Curriculum Architectural Design, Graduate Fabrication+Design/Build Studio, Pavilion St. Louis, Spring 2011 Digital Fabrications, 3D Design, Representation Coordinator, Graduate Core 1 Studio, Fall 2011 Design Thinking, Thesis Prep. Design Thinking, Thesis Prep., Fall 2010 Architectural Design, Options Studio, Jakarta Office Building Independent Study, 2 student projects Architectural Design, Options Studio, Summer 2010 Camera Obscura: Digital Fabrication, Spring 2010 Architectural Design, Fabrication Studio, Sarasota, Florida Residence Architectural Design III, Housing Studio, Fall 2009

Fabrication Lab:
Established DIL (Digital Initiative Lab), Large Scale CNC and Thermofroming Lab, Fall 2009 Studio Project: Reticulated Form: Critic, Joe MacDonald, Fall 2011 Studio Project: Plastik Pavilion: Studio Critic Ken Tracy with Marc Fornes, Spring 2011 Studio Project: Sheet Logics: Studio Critic, Heather Roberge, Fall 2010 Studio Project: TRANS:formable_BODIES, Studio Critic, SungHo Kim, Spring 2009 Studio Project: Tessellated Manifolds, Studio Critic, Marcelo Spina with Daniel Carper, Fall 2009

Faculty Workshop
Fabrication, Architectural Geometry, Rhino 4, MasterCAM, Fall 2010, Fall 2011

Material Resonance Workshop

RhinoScripting, Grasshopper, Fabrication workshop Coordinated, Hosted and Conducted workshop with Marc Fornes and Andy Payne, Summer 2010

Workshop and Lecture, University of Minnesota, School of Architecture

Catalyst Studio, Invited to lecture and lead workshop on fabrication, March 2012

Lecture, Columbia University, GSAPP

Material Experiments, Summer 2009

Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Pratt Institute, GAUD

Computers II, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, GSAPP

Mechanics of Form, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design

Fabrication Process, Fall 2006

Workshop Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design

Fabrication Demo/ Lecture and Studio Critique with Critic Hina Jamelles Design Studio, Fall 2006

Instructor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Architecture

Instructor First Year Undergraduate Graphics I, Fall 2005 Co-Coordinated Graphics II Curriculum, Spring 2006 Co-Coordinated Graphics II Lecture Series, Spring 2006

Graduate Assistant, Columbia University, GSAPP

Teaching Assistant, Digital Fabrication, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005 Teaching Assistant, Advance Maya, Fall 2003, Spring 2004 Digital Assistant, Summers 2004 & 2005 Advanced Architectural Design Design Studio Assistant, with critic Bill MacDonald, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004

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Professional

kentracy@yocy.us

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St. Louis MO 63105

Yogiaman Tracy Design, Founding Partner, St. Louis, Mo 2010-Present

Tex-Fab, Applied Research Through Fabrication Competition Fall 2013
Competition Finalist, Commissioned Project, ongoing

Kopo House, Bandung, Indonesia, 2012-Present

Schematic Design Phase ongoing project

Cideng Office Building, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011-Present

Schematic Design Phase ongoing project

Weft House, Jakarta, Indonesia, Fall 2010-Summer 2011

Full Project design and bid documents

Givens Vitrines, Givens Hall, Washington University St Louis, 2012

Commissioned Project, completed

Sukkah City STL, St. Louis, MO, Fall 2011

Competition Finalist/Commision, Design and Fabrication temporary Sukkah Pavilion

Going with the Grain Design Competition, Summer 2009

Project Woobble, Honorable Mention

4-pli Design, Founding Partner, Brooklyn, NY 2005-2009

http://www.4-pli.com/

Taras Residence, Manhattan, NY, Summer 2009

Design/Fabricate Apartment and Terrace Renovation

Thirst Wine Merchants, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2006

Design/Build/Fabricate Wine Store interior

New York Magazine, Best Bets, Manhattan, NY, Fall 2006

Design/Fabricate booths for charity shopping event

Urban Spring, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2006

Design/Build/Fabricate juice bar Interior

BrainPop and Fashion Wire Daily, New York, NY, Summer 2005
Design/Build/Fabricate office interior

Associated Fabrication LLC, Founding Partner, Brooklyn, NY 2005-2009

http://www.associatedfabrication.com/, AF photoblog

Whistler 2010 Bus Shelters, Whistler, BC, Current, Winter 2010

Fabricating bus shelters for Winter Olympics

Halo Bar, Washington, DC, Summer 2008

Fabricated Thermoformed, CNC milled casework/furniture

Cirrus Sculpture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Cincinnati, OH, Summer 2008

Fabricated CNC milled mdf and Formica sculpture

Tool Hide Wardrobe, Ruy+Klein Architects, New York, NY, Spring 2005
Design Consultant and Fabricated CNC milled, Auto body Painted, textured doors and casework

Atelier Imrey Culbert, Intern Architect, New York, NY Summers 2004, 2003
Kuwait National Museum & UNESCO, Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2003-2004
Museum Renovation Design

City Lights Competition, City of New York, New York, NY 2004

Third Place Finalist, Assisted in design, modeling and representation of competition entry

Carl Abbott FAIA Architects, Intern Architect, Sarasota, FL 2000-2002

Gregg and Pamela Horowitz, Sarasota, FL 2000-2001
Bayfront Residence Project manager during schematic design and design development

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Publications/Press

kentracy@yocy.us

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Design of the Times, Ami Kealoha

Furniture Designs Featured, The New York Post, 12 May 2007

Associated Fabrication: Heavy Metal/Light Touch, David Sokol

Firm Profile, Architectural Record, October 2007

Subcompact Hybrids, Lisa Delgado

Project Article, Interior Project Featured, Architects Newspaper, October 2007

the taste files: San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, Yosh Asato and Mimi Zeiger
Interior Project Featured, Form Magazine, December 2007

Transmaterial 2, Blaine Brownell

Dimple Halftone a material developed by Associated Fabrication is featured, January 3, 2008

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, Lisa Iwamoto

Fabrication Piece Featured, Collaboration with Ruy Klein Architects, Princeton Arch. Press, 2009

Exhibitions

Made in the Shade:Revisiting Paul Rudolphs Florida Houses, Sheldon Galleries,

Currated Exhibition Featuring WashU Studio work and Traveling Exhibiton by Joe King and Chris Domin, Spring 2012

Electric is the Love, Laumeier Museum, St. Louis, MO

Commisioned Installation, Loom Portal, Fall 2011

Sukkah City STL, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Commision Installation, Gleaned, Fall 2011

The Business of Aura, Elga Wimmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY

Exhibited, Cideng Batik #15, 14 Auguast 2009

Overlap, Elga Wmmer Gallery, Manhattan, NY

Co-currated and exhibited industrial design work, Woobble and Sequence 1, September, 2008

Brooklyn Designs, DUMBO, NY

Curated furniture exhibition, May 2006 and May 2007

Project to Surface, M127, Manhattan, NY

Collaborated on design with Grainworks Studio, fabricated pieces by 5 graphic artists, June 2007

Scripted By Purpose, Fuel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibited Leaves, thermoformed, parametric canopy panels, September 2007

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REFERENCE URLS

kentracy@yocy.us

917.370.7780

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St. Louis MO 63105

Cast Thicket
http://tex-fab.net/APPLIEDdownloads/APPLIEDpress.pdf http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winner_of_applied_research_through_fabrication_competition/

UMN Catalyst Workshop and Lecture

https://events.umn.edu/017560 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/arch/studentwork/2012/03/architecture-as-catalyst-nested-scales.html http://acadia.org/projects/ZAPFKX

Plasti(k) Pavilion
http://archinect.com/features/article/100296/student-works-stalactile-tessellated-manifolds http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/innovative-pavilion-dedicated-in-botanical-heights/article_ e6b2e468-d329-5a44-bf65d27bbd4eb81b.html http://plastikpavilion.wordpress.com/ http://www.stlouiscitytalk.com/2011/07/plastick-pavilion-in-botanical-heights.html

Made in the Shade Links

http://sheldonconcerthall.org/pr/2012/PR120126-1.pdf http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2012-08-16/culture/in-the-galleries-new-made-in-the-shade-paul-rudolphs-florida-houses-revisited/

Associated Fabrication Links

http://archrecord.construction.com/archrecord2/work/0710/associatedFabrication.asp http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157609944755905/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157610685088066/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157622008418403/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157622228890262/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157608277376167/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157608649399910/

4pli links
http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157608114867560/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157607917776725/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157608110148662/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/associatedfabrication/sets/72157607864158635/

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ACADEMIC PLASTI(K) PAVILION CORE 2 | CORE 4 MADE IN THE SHADE JAKARTA STUDIO

kentracy@yocy.us

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Graduate Option Studio, St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2011 Freshmen Undergraduate Studio | Sophomore Undergrad Studio, Spring 2012 Graduate Option Studio, St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2010 Graduate Option Studio, St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011

PLASTI(K) PAVILION
St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2011
Occupying a formerly vacant lot in a central St. Louis the Botanical Heights Plasti(k) Pavilion served as both a vauable learning experience for Graduate Archtiecture students and as an advetisement for a newly recovering neighborhood. The project was a complex collaboration between Washington University, Marc Fornes principal of theverymany, New York, Sarah Gibson the Pricipal of CDO in St. Louis and Will Laufs of Buro Happold New York. From the beginning the studio engaged the community of Botanical Heights through community board meetings recieving feedback and informing the community of the pavilions impact. The pavilion is a composition of modular, 3D, non-repeating tiles whos curved surfaces constantly change orientation to create a convoluted, spatially-absorbent surface. The piece was made possible through the use of parametric software, custom algorithms, structural simulation, CNC milling, thermoforming and ambitious students.

Freshmen Undergraduate Studio

Washington University, Spring 2012
Binary Immersion Pool Through both physical and geometric constraints, the 112 studio explored the presence and possible erasure of binary oppositional relationships. Through the measurement, documentation, and 3D modeling of Concordia Seminary Park, students explored the relationship between terrain and architectural space. Using 3D modeling tools, they delineated and then lofted the landscape. Through a series of iterations this lofted landscape was redrawn to conflate the existing terrain with a synthetic topology contrived through a found texture. Physically output using digital tools, the surfaces from this exploration were imagined as unlikely but occupiable landscapes. Through an intensification of the conflated topography/topology, students imbedded immersion pools into the context. These pools create spaces for direct intimate contact and sensory immersion. Through this program, students were challenged to create a building that produces a perceptually rich procession by manipulating light, mass, and surface.
Andy Lee Jennifer Rokoff
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CORE 2

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Caitlin Lee

Sophomore Undergrad Studio

Washington University, Spring 2012
Urban Winery Architecture nuances the boundary between different conditions. Inside/ outside, figure/ground, earth/sky and other relationships figure prominently in how architecture is conceived and evaluated. Architects simulate these oppositional conditions through their drawing of points, lines, curves and surfaces. Because of computers the exact point that an architect designates is now more than ever precisely controllable. Through the use of computers these architect-contrived boundaries can be precisely fabricated. This direct control through a binary machine enables us to create ever more nuanced space. The studio studied a prominent urban site in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis. Through a series of iterations the site was redrawn to create a new, textured topography that indexes movement, mass and other urban phenomena. The culmination of this study is the design of an Urban Winery. Overlapping urban life with artisanal craft the 6000 sqft project combines a large cellar, wine bar and harvest room.
Adam Strobel

CORE 4

Reagan Lauder

V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A

Stephanie Silva

MADE IN THESHADE
St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2010
This studio investigated modern, domestic architecture in Sarasota, Florida through both historical context and current techniques of architectural production. Student groups designed replacement shade canopies for Paul Rudolphs notable Hiss Residence. The class traveled to Sarasota to meet the current owners of the house and visit several other notable Rudolph houses. As a funded fabrication studio, students not only designed but detailed and prototyped their canopies at full-scale. After the completion of the studio the Sheldon Galleries in St. Louis hosted an exhibition highlighting both the student work and the work of Paul Rudolphs Florida houses. Made in the Shade: Revisiting Paul Rudolphs Florida Houses juxtaposed the work of the studio with period Ezra Stoller photographs from an exhibition by Joe King and Christopher Domin for their book Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses.

The Sheldon Art Gallery

Jared Marcantoni; Patricia Grierson; Aya Rojnuck arin; Inny Bae

Sara Johnson; Jumi Song; Charity Seyer

Christina Galati;

Corinna Gleich;

Adriane Riesser

JAKARTA STUDIO
St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011
The fourth largest country in the world behind the United States, Indonesia boasts a rich layering of cultures but lacks the strong, contemporary identity and attention given many smaller nations. Though it lacks a strong internationally recognized image, the country has an internally rich cultural heritage and national pride. Paramount to Indonesias national identity and its economy are its hand labored crafts. Batik, carpentry, stone carving and textiles are all important production and artisan industries in Java that have stayed the test of time and endured through an embattled history of upheaval and regime change. This studio will leverage this enduring phenomenon to anchor our work within this rich context. We will seek ways in which to bridge between the inherent dichotomies which have in the past isolated Jakartas architecture from Indonesian culture. We will look to combine what seem like irreconcilable different modes of thinking such as Manual craft vs digital production, iconic architecture vs city fabric, foreign intervention vs local identity. Jakarta Studio: Constraining Dichotomies proposes to design a speculative office, retail and residential tower in central Jakarta along the Cideng River.

RATTAN

Benjamin Stephenson

CRACKS

Xiaomeng Fu

KETUPAT

Lavender Tessmer

WARP

Nathaniel Elberfeld

[IM]PERMEABLE

Jason Butz

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PROFESSIONAL WEFT HOUSE CAST THICKET GIVENS VITRINES LOOM PORTAL GLEANED SUKKAH 4-PLI
ASSOCIATED FABRICATION

kentracy@yocy.us

917.370.7780

6216 Northwood Ave. #3

St. Louis MO 63105

Jakarta, Indonesia, 2012 - present

St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2012 - present

St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2012

St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011

St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011

Brooklyn, New York, 2005-2009

Brooklyn, New York, 2005-2009

Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011 - present

Weft House negotiates the conflict of maximizing volume and the need to access dayligh by weaving solid service and private spaces around a string of open public spaces. These strands shift from sitewall to sitewall to allow for two large voids in an otherwise solid mass. The cladding of the house responds to the contridicting desires of both clients to have the house be transparent like a modern house and solid like a stone. To address this paradox a dense woven screen is designed to shade the upper story of the cantilevered glass faade. Programmatically, the screen needed to wrap the front of the house for privacy, allowing access and view on the west side facing a private roof garden. To accomplish this, the surface twists and contracts as it wraps from north to west. The screen also had to vary in porosity to allow in light and create an ordered pattern on the faade. Aside from the programmatic function this patterned skin was seen as an asset shared between the client and the public. For this asset acting as both wallpaper and an affirmation of the cultural context of Jakarta we chose to reference the craft of Javanese Warp Ikat.

WEFT HOUSE

CAST THICKET
TexFab Competition, Current
Currently Under Construction, Cast Thicket is our winning entry for the TEXFAB 4: Applied Research Through Fabrication Competition. The piece will be constructed and installed as part of a conference and traveling exhibition.

Cast Thicket mixes tensile, textile systems with concrete formwork to create novel spatial effects from interlaced cast elements. Leveraging the dexterity of hand assembly, empirical materials testing and computational optimization Cast Thicket embraces the contingent, layered process of concrete construction. Utilizing a digitally-fabricated, parametrically-optimized tensile skin as a mold the project overlays the clean space of simulation and the dirty space of on-site construction. Through an initial investigation of thin, flexible formwork the project has developed a series of design intelligences that, though used in conjunction can be seen as significant, discrete technologies.

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Parametric Connections Respond to Seem Curvature Analysis

Steel Branch Angle Analysis, Detail and Welding Jig

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Prototype 2.3 Formwork and Casting Test of Three-Nodes

GIVENS VITRINES
St Louis, Missouri, Spring 2012
Commissioned to house faculty publications for Washington University in St. Louiss Architecture Department the Givens Vitrines occupy the residual space of a landing in Givens Hall. The vitrines sample the details and materiality of the 1930s Beaux Arts building to create a subtle intervention. In addition to contextual references, the vitrines form was designed to optically blend into the space. Perched on either end of a landing the twin cases match the symmetry of the buildings monumental stair. Each vitrine is symmetrical in elevation and asymmetrical in plan. By squeezing one vertical edge closer to the wall the cases avoid direct light from the windows and open to passing viewers. Suspended on custom steel brackets, books are nested within a smooth, white, concave container. Without any perceptible edges the vitrines internal surface visually flattens against the plaster walls foregrounding the suspended books. Contrasting the vitrines smooth, white interior the ornamental, wood frame creates a dark, textured shadow-line. Sampled from the original details of the stairwell the frames ornament is literally drawn from the context. Shapes from moulding, handrails, pilasters and other details were measured and redrawn in the computer. Using 3D modeling software the profiles where then morphed together in a sequence to create a flowing continuum of changing profiles around the cases.

LOOM PORTAL
St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011
Loom Portal is a proxy for the covered windows in the galleries at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO. A commissioned installation for the gallery, Loom Portal is conceived as a light retention and transmission device that grafts onto the faade of the building, establishing real-time interface between the segregated interior and exterior environments. This simple interface is expanded, thickened and made visible through the organization logistics of light transfer. Eight hundred light-gathering mirrors sample the exterior light and color from the park landscape and carried the sampled light through eight miles of fiber optic filament. A loom consisting of a wood frame and two heddles hanging from the ceiling stretch the fibers and organize the sequence from the exterior environment input mirrors to the interior output screen. The filaments terminate at a diffusing screen which displays the sampled light through an array of pixels.

Parabola Foci
at the end of each fiber optic cable stems angled upward collect light reflected from the sky

light travels through the fiber optic cable from the exterior array to the interior dispay panel

Parabolic Mirror
focuses light rays onto the end of each fiber optic cable

stems angled downward collect light reflected from the ground

GLEANED SUKKAH
St Louis, Missouri, Fall 2011
The Gleaned Sukkah is a temporal assembly that is constructed for use during a week-long festival of Sukkot. The tectonic, material and assembly are developed through understanding the context of this cultural ritual. The Gleaned Sukkah synthesizes cultural ritualswith natural cycles. The tectonic negotiates two distinct material systems, one which loosely controls the other. A tenuous composite of precisely fabricated, lacy frame delicately pinches the tufts of long, native prairie grasses to form a reciprocal structural system. The frame is created by 3 horizontal U shaped loops held in place by a series of 24 vertical struts. 2 of the loops form a spiraling, ruled surface providing both structure and spatial effects. The spiraling loops delineate an attenuated threshold that reorients the space of the sukkah from the entry through the interior to the sky. This twisting transition at the top of the structure provides a spatial focus and braces the upper part of the structure. In stark contrast to the synthetic frame of the pavilion its skin is formed from clumps of locally collected native prairie grasses. Slid manually into calibrated, barrette-like clips in the struts, the grass tufts provide lateral strength and most of the mass/surface of the construct. The pattern of clips on the struts stretches with the topology of the surface changing the pattern and porosity of the skin.

4-PLI
Brooklyn, New York
Founded along with Associated Fabrication LLC in 2005, 4pli Design has completed commercial and residential interior projects for clients in Manhattan and Brooklyn. 4pli leverages the expertise gained at AF to complete experimental design/fabricate projects. Projects include a coffee shop East 11th Street Residence, Manhattan, NY, Fall 2007 created from reclaimed casework, a sweet smelling wine shop made using no VOCs, a formally innovative loft renovation and an office with an acoustically innovative conference room. The firm questions conventional standards for space and materiality in all projects and proves this innovation through prototypes. Projects completed by the firm are regularly published in magazines and on blogs including Architectural Record, Dwell, the Architects Newspaper, Archinect and Cool Hunting.

BrainPop and Fashion Wire Daily, New York, NY, Summer 2005

Josh and Donna Loft, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2006

Thirst Wine Merchants, Brooklyn, NY, Fall 2006

Urban Spring, Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2006

ASSOCIATED FABRICATION
Brooklyn, New York
Associated Fabrication LLC was founded to act as a digital fabrication firm specializing in creating custom fabricated surfaces and millwork for artists, contractors and architects. Through an initial investment in a large scale CNC router and thermoforming equipment the 7000sqft shop could work on projects at every scale. In addition to the fabrication of finished pieces AF acts as a sourcing, material research and CAD/CAM/BIM consultant to its clients. Research projects include Dimple Halftone and Expanded Solid Surface both published projects which extended the working knowledge of machines to designers and artists. In addition to outsourcing fabrication AF also extended its design services as 4pli design.

Chanel, Design Consultant and Fabrication

Cirrus Sculpture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Cincinnati, OH, Summer 2008

Whistler 2010 Bus Shelters, Whistler, BC, Current, Winter 2010

Oppenheimer; Fabrication

Dimple Half-Tone, Publication, Transmaterial 2

Vito Acconci; Design Consultant and Fabrication

Tool Hide Wardrobe, Ruy+Klein Architects, New York, NY, Spring 2005