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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
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Mapping
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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
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Mapping
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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
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memorial
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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
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Branding
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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
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geography
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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
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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
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Book Design
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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
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color
ENVISIONING ORGANIZATION
Symposium: Architecture + Information. Graphic Project: Signage, posters, collaterol for Envisioning Organization, symposium at the Knowlton School of...
graphic design
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color
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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
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color
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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
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water
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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
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health
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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
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high speed rail
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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
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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
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urban
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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
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urban
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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
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horses
AIR SHED
Anticipated Publication: 3rd Coast Atlas, ACTAR press. Editors Charles Waldheim, Clare Lyster, Mason White.
infrastructure
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information
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midwest