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COMMEMORATING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 
Paper Presentation: Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, 2022. Pittsburgh, PA. Open Session. Part 1: A Story about Signage Five small...
Underground Railroad, Mapping, Landscape 
MAPPING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 
Exhibition Video: Mapping the Underground Railroad: Landscapes of Defiance and Ingenuity, researched, designed and animated by Karen Lewis, included in the...
Underground Railroad, Mapping, Landscape 
GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS 
Publication: Written, illustrated and designed by Karen Lewis (Routledge / Taylor Francis), 2015 Download a Free Sample Chapter: Resumes Graphic Design for...
Graphic Design 
FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL FINALIST 
Finalist, Flight 93 9/11 Memorial Landscape Project Team: Jason Kentner, Karen Lewis, E. Lynn Miller and Fritz Steiner. Scott Biel, Jenny Gelber, Halina Steiner,...
9/11, memorial, NPS 
THE OREGON TRAIL 
Research Project: Explores the ever evolving landscape of technology, transportation and communications that occupy the space claimed by The Oregon Trail, the major...
 
BE2: REDESIGNING BOB EVANS 
Teaching: Spring 2014 and 2015 Funded Research Studios Sponsorship by the Bob Evans Corporation: $35,000 BE:2020 Research Document Summer Research Assistants:...
Teaching, Branding, Family Dining 
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL MODEL 
Entry for the ENYA Queensway Competition, Summer 2014 Selected: Journal of Architectural Education: S,M,L,XL edition (Winter2016) Project Team: Karen Lewis,...
 
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE 
Entry for the ENYA Queensway Competition, Winter 2014 Project Team: Karen Lewis, Levi Bedel, Aaron Powers, Cheyenne Vandevoorde
 
YELLOWTOWN 
Published: Dr. Matthew Soar, ed., Design and Culture (London: Berg Pubishers, 2010): 183-198. Presented: Logocities Symposium, Concordia University, Montreal,...
graphic, geography, segregation 
TESTING GROUNDS 
Designed Publication: 100 Years of Landscape at Ohio State University by Justin Parscher and Dorothee Imbert The book celebrates 100 years of teaching landscape...
Book Design, Landscape 
THE CLOUD 
Teaching: Studio Project by Kristina Bertocchi, BS in Architecture, Ohio State, 2016 Winner: 2015 Knowlton School Gui Competition, First Place (out of 80...
 
RESILIENCE NETWORK 
Design Proposal for 12/14 Memorial, Newtown, CT, Spring 2013-present Selected: Bracket Takes Action, Fall 2014 Project Team: Karen Lewis
 
GEOGRAPHY OF VIOLENCE 
Finalist: Buckminster Fuller Institute Dymax Redux Competition, Summer 2013 Exhibition: DymaxRedux, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, Fall 2013 Project Team: Karen...
 
IMPLICIT BIAS 
Client: The Women's Place, The Ohio State University Project: Real-time book development. Notes were taken during the meetings directly into InDesign, allowing the...
 
SHARED WORK 
Client: Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Consultant, Host and Facilitator Project: Graphic consulting and design for Tuesday Ryan-Hart, a consultant who works with communities...
 
PRAGMATIC IMAGINATION 
Designed Publication: for Ann Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown Pragmatic Imagination is a small book that presents a valuable resource for navigating our...
Graphic Design, Book Design, Typography 
ALMANAC OF PROJECTION 
Architecture as Catalyst, 2013 University of Minnesota School of Architecture Faculty Critic: Marc Swackhamer Workshop: Information Design workshop using ArcGIS,...
 
DIAGRAMMATICALLY 
Urban Infill Volume 5 Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Kent State University Finalist EDRA Places Book Award 2013 Editors: Terry Schwartz and Karen...
 
ENVISION 2020 
Client: University of Kentucky College of Arts & Science Project Team: Matthew Banton, Karen Lewis Special edition of Ampersand, the College of Arts & Science's...
graphic design, color 
ENVISIONING ORGANIZATION 
Symposium: Architecture + Information. Graphic Project: Signage, posters, collaterol for Envisioning Organization, symposium at the Knowlton School of...
graphic design, color, events 
DATA VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE 
Sponsored by: seed media group Submissions: 18 teams (35 students) from the KSA submitted work. Recognizing the university's ambitions of becoming a leader in...
graphic design, color, events 
HARBORPORT 
Finalist: One Prize, Summer 2011 Project Team: Matthew Banton, Sean Burkholder, Jason Kentner, Karen Lewis Harborport links New York’s water management s...
infrastructure, water, transportation 
HEALTH CORRIDOR 
Honorable Mention, Life at the Speed of Rail Competition Van Alen Institute, Summer 2011 Health Corridor aligns Ohio’s proposed high-speed rail corridor not ...
high speed rail, health, infrastructure 
SWITCH SPACE 
Winning Entry, Life at the Speed of Rail, Van Alen Institute, Summer 2011 Project Team: Emma Cuciurean-Zapan and Christine Yankel. Project completed in Karen...
infrastructure, high speed rail, economies 
110% JUICE 
Project Team: Jason Kentner, Karen Lewis Honorable Mention: Windscape: An Ideas Competition for Cape Wind, Sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects, Winter...
infrastructure, energy 
INNER SPACE 
Honorable Mention: Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100. Exhibition: Selected for focused exhibition at the Center for Architecture and to build a context...
infrastructure, urban, diagrams 
URBAN DIAGRAMS 
The following is a version of the paper presented at ACSA 100: Digital Aptitudes, March 1, 2012. Boston, MA. Full publication available for download at the ACSA...
diagrams, urban, infrastructure 
DRESSAGE DIAGRAMS 
Dressage, the sport of equestrian choreography through several controlled movements, is communicated through the test map. This project compacts the dressage...
diagrams, horses 
AIR SHED 
Anticipated Publication: 3rd Coast Atlas, ACTAR press. Editors Charles Waldheim, Clare Lyster, Mason White.
infrastructure, information, midwest