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2009 ResMed, San Diego, CA (with Davis & Davis Architects)

2009 Santa Rosa Junior College Student Center, Santa Rosa, CA

2009 Niswonger Children’s Hospital, Johnson City, TN

2009 Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC (with Clearscapes)

2008 Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Water Department Headquarters, Utrecht, Netherlands

2008 Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ (with Barton Myers and Architekton)

2008 Bayfront Plaza, San Diego Hilton, CA (with John Portman Architect)

2008 ATF Headquarters, Washington DC (with Moshe Safdie)

2008 Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (with Moshe Safdie)

2007 Parking Structure 9, Santa Rosa, CA

2006 Dubai Festival City, United Arab Emirates

2006 Milwaukee Waterfront, Milwaukee, WI

2006 Issaquah Highlands, Washington (with MBT Architecture - Seattle)

2006 21-C Museum, Louisville, KY

2006 Union Point Park, Oakland Estuary (with Mario Schjetnan Garduno and PGA design)

2006 ICON, San Diego, CA

2006 Marvell Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA

2005 International Trade Center, Charlotte, NC

2005 Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center, Mesa, AZ (with BOORA & DWL Architects)

2005 Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany (with architect, Zaha Hadid)

2004 Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA (with Todd Bennitt Landscape Architect)

2004 Pittsburgh Children’s Museum (with Koening Eizenberg Architects)

2004 ATT Building, Santa Rosa, CA

2004 Emerald Glen Park, Dublin, CA (with Carducci Landscape Architects)

2003 BART Station, San Francisco International Airport, (with MBT Architecture)

2003 University of Oregon, Eugene (with CMGS landscape architects)

2003 DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve, Napa, CA

2003 Chevron/Texaco Headquarters, San Ramon, CA (with Tsao Design Group)

2002 Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland (with Durig & Rami Architekt)

2002 1801 North Lynn Street, Arlington, VA (with RTKL architects)

2001 Yahoo Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA

2001 School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2000 Gateway Village, Charlotte, North Carolina

2000 Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany (with Atelier Bruckner Architects)

1999 Rose Center for Earth & Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York

1999 Baypointe Light Rail Station, San Jose, CA (with SBA Architects)

1998 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), Boulder, CO

1996 School of Engineering (ITL), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1995 Founders Court, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, (with Atelier Landscape)

1994 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO

 

Works-in-Progress:

 

2009 Transbay Terminal, San Francisco, CA (with Cesar Pelli and Peter Walker)

2009 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (with Moshe Safdie)

2009 Sacramento Docks, Sacramento, CA (with Walker/Macy)

2009 San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters (with KMD)

2009 Minnesota Twins Ballpark, Minneapolis, MN (with Tom Oslund)

 

Selected Exhibitions:

 

2009 Pasadena Museum of California Art

2009 Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY

2009 National Building Museum, Washington, DC

2009 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA

2008 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

2007 AIA Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 Museum of Natural History New York, NY

2002 Museum of Natural History London, England

2001 Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, CA

2001 New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA

 

Awards / Grants:

 

2009 Public Art Award, Americans for the Arts, 40 Best Public Artworks

2006 AIA Honor Award with Koning/Eizenberg for the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum

2006 Design Distinction - Environments, I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review

2006 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts

2005 National Design Award, Landscape Design, from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

2005 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts

2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

1999 Creative Work Fund (with TODCO, San Francisco)

1999 National Science Foundation, Planetary Landscapes Exhibition, Chabot Observatory

1996 National Science Foundation, Turbulent Landscapes Exhibition, Exploratorium

1994 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship

1994 California Arts Council Fellowship

1992 Bernard Osher Cultural Award

1991 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship

 

Education:

 

1982 B.A., Environmental Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

 

Reviews / Articles:

 

2009 New York Times, “Into Another Dimension” , by Julia Klein

2009 San Francisco Chronicle, “Memory of Water”, by John King

2008 Sculpture Magazine, “Sculpting Consciousness”, by Lisa Streitfeld

2008 Professional Lighting Design, “Nature Meets Art - Art Meets Nature”

2006 Landscape Architecture, “Design with Science”, by Susan Hines

2004 Sunset Magazine, “The Nature of Art”, by Peter Fish

2004 Los Angeles Times, “Please Trample the Grass”, by Mary McNamara

2004 Artweek, “Ned Kahn at Off the Preserve”, by Colin Berry

2003 San Francisco Magazine, “Mother Nature’s Sons”, by Jonathon Keats

2003 San Francisco Chronicle, “Urban Landscapes” by John King

2001 Marin Independent Journal, “Putting Art in Motion”, by Rick Polito

1999 New Scientist, Interview with Ned Kahn and Jeff Greenwald

1996 New York Times, “Persuading Nature...”, by Tessa DeCarlo

1996 Los Angeles Times Magazine, “Mad About Sci-Art”, by K.C. Cole

1996 Complexity, Turbulent Landscapes, by Ned Kahn and Dr. James Crutchfield

1993 Wall Street Journal, “Where Art Meets Science”, by Tessa DeCarlo

1989 New York Times Magazine, “Works in Progress”, by Bruce Weber

1988 New Yorker Magazine, “Talk of the Town”, by Adam Gopnick

 

Public Lectures:

 

2009 Art in Public Spaces Symposium, Austin, TX

2009 Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

2009 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2008 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2008 Woodbury University, Burbank, CA

2007 Columbia University, New York, NY

2007 Idea Festival, Louisville, KY

2007 Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2007 Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA

2007 AIA Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2005 Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

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