B.A. Fine Arts, Smith College; M.Arch., University of Virginia

Kim Coleman teaches topic and fifth-year studios, as well as seminars investigating the computer as a unique site for exploring relationships between systems of order. The notion of design as a dialectic between a framework of formal structures and a context of site, precedent, and program and the computer as a primary tool for design exploration are implicit in her research, which is pursued through articles, theoretical design projects, and built works of architecture. She has published several articles on design as a process of critical transformation and on the potential impact of computer integrated design. She is a principal, with Mark Cigolle, in the firm Cigolle X Coleman, whose work has been a finalist in several design competitions and has been widely exhibited and published.  For more information on Cigolle X Coleman, please see www.cxcarch.com.