Gordon Kipping is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where he has been teaching since 2000. Since 1999, Kipping has been principal of G TECTS,
focusing on research and projects for a number of institutions, corporations,
government agencies and private individuals. Gordon Kipping is a native of Toronto, Canada who has been living and working in
New York City since 1995. Upon completing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in
engineering in 1989 at the University of Toronto, Gordon Kipping worked as a
mechanical engineer in building services, eventually attaining licensure as a
Professional Engineer in 1993. In 1991, he returned to school to study architecture at
the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he received a Master of
Architecture degree in 1995. Since graduation, Gordon Kipping has worked for the
offices of Philip Johnson, Greg Lynn, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Davis Brody
Bond. Gordon Kipping has been a Visiting Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate
School of Design at Harvard University and has assisted Frank Gehry in teaching
design studios at the School of Architecture at Yale University.