Karen Kubey, the former executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture, is a New York-based architectural designer and educator, specializing in housing design and research. Trained as an architect at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University, she began her career working in affordable housing design. Kubey co-founded both the Architecture for Humanity New York chapter and New Housing New York, the city’s first design competition for sustainable and affordable housing. She is a recipient of the Independent Projects Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and was the 2012 Wilder Green Fellow at MacDowell.
Discipline:
Architecture – text
Karen Kubey
Discipline:
Architecture – text
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012
More:
www.karenkubey.net
Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
Studios
Chapman
Karen Kubey worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…