Keith Krumwiede

Keith Krumwiede, Director, Krum|Co, California & New York

"Once Upon a Time in Another America"

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Keith Krumwiede is the author of Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction (Park Books, 2016), a book that mixes satire, sci-fi, and the sublime in plans for utopian villages built out of suburban mega-homes. His installation, “Visions of Another America,” is currently on view at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

A writer, designer and educator, Krumwiede received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and his Master of Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Currently a visiting associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he has also taught at Rice University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he served as the director of graduate architecture programs from 2012-2017.

Krumwiede’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at WUHO Gallery, Pinkcomma Gallery, Princeton University’s School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Cooper Union’s School of Architecture and was featured in “The World in Our Eyes” exhibition at the 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. His projects and essays have appeared in Domus, 306090, Perspecta, Praxis, Log,The Avery Review, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Drawing Futures. 

Krumwiede is the winner of the 2017-2018 Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize in Architecture. In Rome he will work on essays and projects for a new book, The New World: Architecture After the End of Work.