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Linda Keane, AIA

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Dept. of Architecture

Professor of Architecture/Architect
Milwaukee, WI
United States
53211-1722

Bio

Linda Keane, AIA, NCARB, ACSA, Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design, teaches in the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As an architect and artist she combines teaching, research and practice with architecture, animation and urbanism. A leader in design education, she lectures about the importance of design education and changing educational practices for the new design economy: Architecture Process Through Animation; Complex Interiority; Interiority Complex; The Culture of Design Education; The Aesthetics of Sustainability and the Ethical Imagination; Eco Literacy: Greening Public Imagination. As Chair of the Department (1985-90, 1998-2003) and the Design Initiative she championed design practices in an art school leading development of a third graduate program in architecture in Chicago. Co-creator and director of www.NEXT.cc, a K12 art + design + environment eco web community, she conducts teacher workshops introducing what design is, what design does and why it is important to society. Co-founder of STUDIO 1032, she works on green initiatives along the Milwaukee- Chicago corridor including the City of Chicago Green Roof Website and mixed –use, mixed income conservation communities. STUDIO 1032 also produces films about architecture, which are shown internationally. The films, awarded a PBS Emmy, are included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Program for Art on Film, Architecture On Screen, A+A Architecturanimacion, and ARCHITECTURE: An Interactive Introduction. Her work has been supported and recognized by the American Institute of Architects, American Architectural Foundation, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and National Endowment for the Arts, National Institute for Architecture Education (Van Alen Institute), the Graham Foundation and the United States Green Building Council. Her honors include an AIA School Medal, an AIC Chairman’s Award, Presidential Urban Engagement Award, AIA/ACSA Research Awards, American Architectural Foundation Merit Awards, United States Green Building Council Excellence in Green Building Education Award, National Endowment of the Arts Design Education Awards, Fulbright to Turkey, a CAP Distinguished Alumnus Award and American Institute of Architecture Gold Medal Honor Award for Design Education.

Specialties

Architectural Design, Environmental Graphic Design, Environmental Studies and Reports, Existing Facilities Surveys, Expert Witness, Graphic Design, Historic Preservation, Landscape Design / Documentation, Motion Picture and Videotape, Project Promotion / Public Relations, Renderings, Site Analysis and Selection, Site Development Planning, Sustainable Building Design, Urban Design Services, Linda Keane has an active environmental design practice and lectures on design education.

Affiliations

American Architectural Foundation (AAF), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), Fullbright International, Teachers Without Borders, Art Institute of Chicago, A+DEN, Architect and Design Education Network, AAO,Association of Architecture Organizations, NAEA, WIEE, AIGA

Interests

Greening imagination, Design Education, Landscape Urbanism, Green Cities

Education

University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States
MARCH, 1985
Architecture
1984 To 1985
Advisor: Stanley Tigerman, Bruce Graham, Thomas Beeby

Job History

www.NEXT.cc, Inc.

Director
Shorewood, WI, United States
April 2007 - present

STUDIO 1032 ARCHITECTURE

Architect
Shorewood, WI, United States
September 1990 - present

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design
Chicago, IL, United States
August 1985 - present
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