The Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design

The Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design was established in 2001 in memory of designer Michael Kalil at the Department of Architecture, Parsons School of Design. The mission of the Endowment is twofold: to foster the understanding of the design intersections between nature and technology and to support a heightened sense of responsibility for increasing the sustainability of built environments. The Endowment's program of Memorial fellowships is the primary means of carrying out that mission.

Michael Kalil was an educator, interior architect and artist. He was the principal of kalil studio, which was under contract with NASA to accomplish advanced research studies for the interior architecture of the Space Station's Habitation Module.

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This site contains information about the Endowment:

• The next Michael Kalil Lecture on Natural and Technological Systems to be announced.
• Applying for the annual Fellowship
• A list of past fellows and their research
• An archive for the annual Michael Kalil Lecture on Natural and Technological Systems, which has presented:

2007 Guest Speaker: Majora Carter, Executive Director / Founder of Sustainable South Bronx
2006 Guest Speaker: William Cronon, Author, Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, http://history.wisc.edu/cronon/
2005 Guest Speaker: Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil
2004 Guest Speaker: Julie Bargmann, D.I.R.T. Studio
2003 Guest Speaker: Thomas Herzog, Principal, Herzog and Partner
2002 Guest Speaker: William McDonough, Principal and Founder, William McDonough and Partners

This site also contains information about the life and work of Michael Kalil:

• Biography
• Projects
• Papers & Lectures
• Bibliography

No applications to be awarded in 2008.

Questions or Comments?

Jean Gardner, CoDirector, Kalil Endowment, email: gardnerj@newschool.edu
Karyn Issa, CoDirector, Kalil Endowment, email: karynissa@aol.com
Mark Watkins, Multimedia Designer, Urban Interface, email: mark@urban-interface.com

Hosted by the Department of Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting, Parsons The New School For Design