Renee Kemp-Rotan


General Information


Occupation: Architectural Designer, Urban Designer, Planner, Theorist

Birth City: Washington

Birth State/Province: D.C.

Birth Country: United States

Resident City: Birmingham

Resident State/Province: Alabama

Resident Country: United States

Sources: http://www.noma.net/local/news.htm


Specialties


Subject: Urban Design, Media, Interpretive Environments


Jobs


Employer: Urban Design Group

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Howard University

Title: Teacher, Architecture

Country: United States


Employer: Parsons School of Design

Title: Teacher, Architecture

Country: United States


Employer: Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

Title: Teacher, Architecture

Country: United Kingdom


Employer: Various

Title: Lecturer

Notes: at FAMU, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, University of Michigan, Tuskegee, The Cooper Hewitt, Cairo University and The Sorbonne


Employer: City of Atlanta, Georgia

Title: Director of Economic Development, Chief of Urban Design and Urban Development

Notes: oversaw the construction of the Philips Arena for the city


Employer: Mayor of Birmingham

Title: Director of Capital Projects

City: Birmingham

State: Alabama

Country: United States

Notes: oversees public facility construction


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo Competition

Description: placed 21 out of 4000 entries


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: Syracuse University

Department: Architecture

End Date: January 01, 1975

Notes: cum laude


Institution: Architectural Association in London

Notes: studied under Paul Oliver, cultural anthropologist and world history teacher


Institution: Columbia University

Degree: Masters of Science in Urban Planning


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: National Endowment of the Arts

Role: headed the Design Demonstration Program and the National Design Competition Program


Organization: National Organization of Minority Architects

Role: 2007 NOMA Design Awards Juror


Organization: RIBA -- Architectural Association (London)


Publications By


Title: Being a black, female architect in a white, male profession

Publication: Architecture: the AIA journal

Volume: 73

Issue: 2

Page: 11

Date Published: January 01, 1984


Publications About


Title: 15 Outstanding NOMA Women

Author: Dowdell, Kimberly N.

Publication: NOMA Magazine

Publisher: NOMA

Date Published: September 01, 2007

Url: www.noma.net/local/documents/FALL08MAGAZINE.pdf