IUCA+D- Columbus

Assistant Professor Kevin Lair teaches at the new IUCAD-C.  He is an interdisciplinary designer whose work focuses on the integration of architecture, art, and entrepreneurship.   While teaching at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, he received a Chancellor’s Leadership Project Award to co-develop collaborations between academic and community partners. The project was based on the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems to build resilient communities and incubate new technologies.  He also received a Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship for courses fostering community activism and a Kauffman Foundation grant for green entrepreneurship.  Professor Lair co-founded and led the coordination for iBOX, an interdisciplinary group based in the Syracuse Center of Excellence.  Prior to that he taught at Iowa State University in the College of Design where he was member of the BioComposite Research Group, the Center for Building Energy Research and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity-IA. 

He is the founder of MOD-ECO Design LLC and is currently developing health care and manufacturing  project-based, design research and entrepreneurial  ventures.   Based on his work at MOD-ECO Design, he has taught design entrepreneurship methodologies for health care and sustainable development solutions in Ghana.  His prior work includes developing a start-up business for rapid retail using pre-fabricated architecture and directing the Westbrook Artists’ Site (WAS ), an exhibition and studio art venue.   He holds degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology from Drake University and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University.