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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="http://flowercat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Robert6-lo-res-1024x683.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-482"/><figcaption><em>photo by Joy McKinney</em></figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size">Robert Kirkbride</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">Robert Kirkbride is a designer, author, and Professor of Architecture and Product Design at Parsons School of Design, who explores the interplay of memory, ornament and placemaking. In addition to designing the Morbid Anatomy Museum and multiple generations of Culobocca, Robert authored and designed Architecture and Memory, an award-winning multimedia online book about two Renaissance memory chambers, and he contributed an award-winning introduction to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. His story, <a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/the-reading-chamber-robert-kirkbride/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Reading Chamber</a>, has been re-published by Asymptote journal, with multiple translations.<br><br><a href="http://robertkirkbride.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">robertkirkbride.com</a></p>
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<p class="has-text-align-left has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">PROJECTS<br><br><img class="wp-image-607" style="width: 150px;" src="http://flowercat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FC-logo-AB-Green.png" alt=""> <br><strong>Always Becoming</strong><br>FC010 <br>Releasing December 21, 2022<br><br><img class="wp-image-586" style="width: 150px;" src="http://flowercat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/false-heads.jpg" alt=""> <br><a href="http://thearches.flowercat.org/exhibits/show/fcpresents-dr/preface" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>False Head, Masks, and Robots</strong></a><br>October 2 – November 16, 2020 <br>The Arches, Merion Station, PA<br><br><img class="wp-image-446" style="width: 150px;" src="http://flowercat.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bourdon_50hz_cover_2022-revision.png" alt=""><br><strong><a href="http://flowercat.org/bourdon-38/" title="Bourdon 50Hz [nº38]">Bourdon 50Hz [nº38]</a> </strong><br>FC007 <br>April 26, 2020</p>
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