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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 who explores the interplay of memory, ornament and placemaking. <br><br>Robert Kirkbride is a designer, author, and Professor of Architecture and Product Design at Parsons School of Design. He explores the interplay of memory, ornament and placemaking through materials, media and methods of fabrication-production. 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 short piece, The Reading Chamber, 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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