Education

Masters in Architecture (Columbia University 2005)
Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Georgia Institute of Technology 2000)

Biography

Kimberly Steiner is a licensed architect and member of the American Institute of Architects with more than twenty years of professional experience in Atlanta and New York City. She is a founding principal of Steiner Studio LLC, an interdisciplinary architecture and landscape architecture practice based in Atlanta, GA. Her work at Steiner Studio centers on integrating carefully articulated architectural design with organic, process driven landscape strategies across multiple scales—from complex public realm projects to private residential commissions. She collaborates with acclaimed firms on national and international projects while also engaging closely with smaller institutional and intimate residential clients throughout the Southeast.

Kimberly’s previous experience includes nine years with Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/ Landscape/ Urbanism, where she contributed to several award winning projects. She served as project architect during the concept phase for the Longwood Gardens North Entry Visitor Sequence and West Conservatory, project architect for the UPenn Krishna Singh Center for Nanotechnology from design through construction, where she led the coordination of complex laboratory and mechanical systems with scientists, clients, and engineers. She also was a project architect for the Barnard College Diana Center in New York City from design through construction. Prior to joining Weiss/Manfredi, Kimberly worked with Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) in New York City and Perkins+Will in Atlanta, GA.

Kimberly earned a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 2005 and was awarded the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, through which she studied post tsunami rebuilding efforts in Thailand. She received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and also studied at the École d’Architecture de la Villette in Paris.

Statement of Teaching Interest

Kim teaches advanced graduate design studios that emphasize critical and conceptual thinking, promote rigorous and iterative design processes, and integrate architecture and landscape to create work deeply grounded in the site and the topography. Her studios also engage tectonic principles as a means of exploring structure, materiality, and spatial expression.

Statement of Research Interest

Kim’s research, teaching, and professional practice center on the integration of architectural design and process driven landscape strategies, with an emphasis on site specificity, ecological resiliency, and the spatial and material relationships between built and natural systems.