Kiel Moe is a registered architect and Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology and teaches courses in technology and design. He is the area coordinator of the Sustainable Design concentration in the Advanced Studies MDesS program.
His research and pedagogical focuses on the formation of energy in architecture. In recognition of his design and research, he was awarded the 2009-10 Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He recently received the 2011 Architecture League of New York Prize and the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award. He is author of Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture (2010) and Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture (2008). He is completing work on a forthcoming book manuscript is entitled The Architecture of Un-tempered Environments and co-editor of Building Systems: Design, Technology, and Society (2012).
He received his B.Arch from the University of Cincinnati, his M.Arch from University of Virginia, and his M.DesS in Design and Environmental Studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Advanced Studies Program. He taught previously at Syracuse University where he was also associated with the Syracuse Center of Energy and Environmental Excellence. Before that, he was the Herbert S. Greenwald Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, he teaches design studios, seminars on Forms of Energy, and lectures on architecture and energy systems. In recognition of his pedagogy and teaching, Moe was awarded the 2010 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award.
