Talk:KieranTimberlake

Merger

{{helpme}} this article should be merged to KieranTimberlake Associates

See Help:Merge for how to do this. Basically, copy over any useful content, make sure to include where it came from in the edit summary--this is very important! Then make this page a redirect.  fetchcomms☛ 23:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Done.--Supertouch 23:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

History edit request

Hello Wikipedia editors. I'm Ivy, an employee at KieranTimberlake. I'm here to post my first edit request to the page. I've gone ahead and disclosed my COI on my user page here as I understand it's important to share that before diving in: User:IvyKieranTimberlake.

I'm here because the firm's article has had a tag on it for quite some time now, and I've drafted up a new version of the History section in an attempt to add new (quality) sourcing to the article and eventually get the tag removed. Below is a bulleted list of the changes I've made in my new version of the History:

• Cited a Pennsylvania Gazette piece that adds info about how Steve Izenour introduced the firm's founders to Robert Venturi
• Added more background information about the founders' each winning the Rome Prize using a Philadelphia Magazine piece
• Added Sam Harris as an original founder and that the company began operations out of Mr. Kieran's Powelton Village home. Later added that he eventually left the firm in the 1990s. Cited this to the Philadelphia Magazine article.
• Added coverage of KieranTimberlake's first few projects, including projects for Chestnut Hill College and the Shipley School.
• Introduced information about how Mr. Kieran and Mr. Timberlake funded their book Refabricating Architecture by using a $50k grant they won, and included that the book sold 13k copies as of 2011, cited to a Global Design News article.
• Cited an article from The Architect’s Newspaper about the firm's ventilated curtain wall installed at University of Pennsylvania.
• Cited a New York Times article that covered the firm's pavilion at Cooper Hewitt, and detailed coverage of the firm's invention SmartWrap.
• I added two sentences about KieranTimberlake's Cellophane House, cited in two pieces: Architect Magazine and American Institute of Architects.
• Cited Architectural Record and CNN, which covered the firm's design of the new Embassy of the United States in London.
• Also introduced new info about two books Mr. Kieran and Mr. Timberlake have authored together: Manual: The Architecture­ of KieranTimberlake and Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water, the second of which I cited to an Architect Magazine piece.
• Cited a Metropolis article to add a new paragraph that details how KieranTimberlake moved its HQ to an old bottling plant and also updated the number of employees.

Here's the draft:

History section draft

History Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake met while they were architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1970s. Their architecture professor Steven Izenour introduced them to architect Robert Venturi and the pair went on to work for him at his firm Venturi Rauch and Scott Brown. In 1980, Kieran won the Rome Prize which included a year-long fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 1982, Timberlake also won the Rome Prize and was awarded a year-long fellowship. In 1984, Kieran, Timberlake, and structural engineer Sam Harris, officially established the practice KieranTimberlake, initially headquartered in Kieran's Powelton Village townhouse. The firm's first few projects included a new building for Kieran's father's car dealership and a jewelry store. The firm's first big project came in 1986 when the architects were commissioned to design a campus community center at Chestnut Hill College. KieranTimberlake was then commissioned for a project at Bryn Mawr's Shipley School complex. Harris later left KieranTimberlake in the 1990s to run his own firm. In 2001, James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran won the Benjamin Henry Latrobe award from the Fellow of the American Institute of Architects which came with $50,000. Timberlake and Kieran used the earnings to write a book titled Refabricating Architecture. The book was published in 2004, and as of 2011, had sold 13,000 copies. In 2002, Princeton Architectural Press published Manual: The Architecture­ of KieranTimberlake, which presents a technical look at the firm's architectural practices. By 2002, the firm had 50 employees. In 2003, the firm installed the first actively ventilated curtain wall in North America at the University of Pennsylvania's Levine Hall. Later in 2003, KieranTimberlake installed a pavilion at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum featuring the firm's invented Smartwrap technology. SmartWrap is a system consisting of layers of transparent PET plastic that incorporates ultrathin solar panels to elect energy with flat chemical batteries to store it. In September 2008, KieranTimberlake's Cellophane House was selected to appear at the Museum of Modern Art's Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition. The Cellophane House was selected for the MoMA's exhibit due to its modular design, use of sustainable building practices, and SmartWrap. In February 2010, KieranTimberlake won the commission for the new Embassy of the United States, London. In January 2018, the new embassy building in London opened. In 2015, Kieran and Timberlake authored Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water, a book investigating housing and climate change in Bangladesh. The book was inspired by the graduate architecture research studio the pair taught at the University of Pennsylvania, which included a trip to Bangladesh. By January 2016, KieranTimberlake had moved its headquarters to a 63,000-square-foot former bottling plant for Henry F. Ortlieb’s Brewing Co., now Christian Schmidt Brewing Company, in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia and has 100 employees. References

I understand this is a fairly detailed draft and that it may take time to get feedback on it. I'll keep an eye on this Talk page whenever feedback comes and will be ready to respond. Thank you so much for taking the time to read! IvyKieranTimberlake (talk) 14:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello once again. I'm back posting under this request to see if editors who have edited this page in the past would have any interest in evaluating this request: User:Rofraja and User:AirForceAviator. Again, if anybody has questions, I'll be here. Thank you.IvyKieranTimberlake (talk) 16:25, 29 May 2024 (UTC)