Gordon Kipping
Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture
Gordon Kipping is a native of Toronto, Canada who has been living and working in New York City since 1995. After completing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in engineering in 1989 at the University of Toronto, Gordon Kipping worked as a mechanical engineer in building services, eventually attaining licensure as a Professional Engineer in 1993. In 1991, he returned to school to study architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he received a Master of Architecture degree in 1995. Since graduation, Gordon Kipping has worked for the offices of Philip Johnson, Greg Lynn, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Davis Brody Bond. Coinciding with his employment in architectural offices, Kipping produced conceptual and built work under the name G TECTS. As G TECTS, he authored a book entitled Ordinary Diagrams: Electronic Information Technologies and Architecture, (1995 & 1997) and had a solo exhibition at StoreFront For Art and Architecture entitled Residual Urban Site Strategies, (1998). The book and a print edition of its final plate Entity as Information Zoom are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Gordon Kipping is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at Columbia University where he teaches an advanced design studio and has assisted Frank Gehry in teaching a design studio at the School of Architecture at Yale University. Since 1999, Kipping has been dedicated to G TECTS, focusing on research and projects for a number of institutions, corporations and private individuals.