Robert Kirkbride directs studio ‘patafisico, an architectural design and research practice, and is Professor of Architecture and Product Design at Parsons School of Design/The New School, where he received the University Distinguished Teaching Award and was Dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments from 2016-2021. Dr. Kirkbride is also Spokesperson and a Trustee for PreservationWorks, a national non-profit organization advocating the adaptive reuse of Linear "Kirkbride" Plan psychiatric hospitals, devised in the mid-nineteenth century by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a distant relative. Robert has been a Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Architect-in-residence at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University, and a Master of Architecture and BA in Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania.Robert’s work integrates scholarship and design, exploring the interplay of mental and physical infrastructures, and the impressions of memory, identity, and everyday habits on our habitats. Among his projects, Robert designed the Morbid Anatomy Museum (Brooklyn, NY), in collaboration with Anthony Cohn, AIA, and established the Giuseppe Zambonini Archive at the Kellen Design Archives, The New School. His multimedia book, Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro (Columbia University Press), received the Gutenberg-e Prize, and his design and research projects have been exhibited and published in The Guardian, Newsweek, Vogue, The New York Times, Chora 4, Mark Magazine, C3, Alphabet City’s FUEL, WATER, and AIR, and others. He also guest-edited the special issue Geometries of Rhetoric for the Nexus Network Journal (Birkhäuser) and prepared a chapter on architecture and rhetoric in the renaissance for Oxford University Press. He has been an editorial board member of the Nexus Network Journal, visiting critic at the University of Edinburgh, guest professor at the University of Montréal, and conducted design charrettes at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.