Keith Krumwiede

Keith Krumwiede serves as Dean of the Architecture Division and Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA), joining in fall 2018 after holding the Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellowship. His academic career spans Yale University (Assistant Dean, 2004-2012), NJIT (Director of Graduate Architecture Programs, 2012-2017), UC Berkeley, MIT, Rice, and Otis College of Art and Design.

Education:

• Master of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture (best thesis prize)
• Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (with honors), University of California at Berkeley (minor in history of the built environment)

Krumwiede's research interrogates architecture's relationship to cultural, social, and political contexts through critical satire, exemplified by projects like 'The Monuments of Another America' and 'Freedomland'. His work exposes architecture's complicity in power structures and reimagines suburban landscapes as sites of cultural critique.

His seminal publication 'Atlas of Another America' (2017) established a satirical architectural treatise format that dissected the American Dream through fictional suburban utopias, blending design fiction with socio-political commentary across architecture, cultural theory, and urban studies domains.

Scientific Awards:

• ACSA Faculty Design Award (2017)
• Book of the Year by Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster (2017)
• Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize at Rice University
• King-lui Wu Teaching Award at Yale School of Architecture
• Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellowship

As an award-winning educator with multiple institution-specific teaching honors, Krumwiede's pedagogical impact is well-documented, though specific current research grants and advisee relationships aren't detailed in available sources.