KB+BA Architecture, LLC
9124 SE Alder St.
Portland, OR. 97216
541-525-1348
www.kb-ba.com
Kate Barbaria: I’m an insatiably curious architect looking to uncover the “why” behind every project. I’m always asking “tell me more!” With a Master of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a B.A. in Art History and Medieval Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC), my education and background focused on the delight and agony of both creating and critiquing art and architecture.
Brendan Albano: As an artist and an architect, my interests range from the conceptual world of performance art to the concrete details of building performance. After receiving my B.F.A. in Visual Art from UBC, where I focussed on performance and installation art, I continued my exploration of creating environments for human interaction in my Master of Architecture at SAIC.
KB+BA: We met in Vancouver, BC and have developed a partnership and practice since our early days in undergrad. Our performance art was described as “groovy, unpretentious… intimate and elemental” (Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight). We’ve cultivated an architecture and design practice that takes an expansive view of space-making and user interaction that is sweet and curious, useful and cerebral, and of course, groovy and elemental.
Principals: Kate Barbaria, AIA; Brendan Albano, AIA, NCARB, CPHC®
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