FacStaff Name

Judy O'Buck Gordon

Associate Professor
Architecture

1109 Seaton Hall
920C N. Martin King Jr. Drive
Manhattan, KS 66506
T: (785) 532-5953
judygordon@k-state.edu

Judy O’Buck Gordon is a Licensed Architect, LEED®AP and Associate Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University. Gordon teaches a large lecture class, Building Construction Systems in Architecture 1, seminars with a focus on praxis and architectural detailing, and design studios. She has also taught at Georgia Institute of Technology, Southern Polytechnic State University, and New York Institute of Technology. Her teaching, research, and writing address questions of architectural tectonics, materials, and making, with an emphasis on critical thinking. She has presented papers on her research into teaching pedagogy, particularly on creative thinking and the spatial tectonics of the Gipsoteca Canoviana Addition in Possagno, Italy, by Carlo Scarpa, at national and international conferences.

Gordon received a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. While at Miami University, Gordon studied at the Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom. At Columbia University, she was awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Prize for Outstanding Thesis.

While in practice in New York City, Gordon worked with Aldo Rossi: Studio di Architettura and was responsible for schematic and design documents for the renovation and new construction for The School of Architecture at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, and the schematic design for several buildings at Centro Torre, Gifu, Japan. She also worked with Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Inc. and was responsible for projects with Coopers & Lybrand; Smith Barney; B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue; Lubin House, Syracuse University, and McBurney YMCA. She was an architect with Kohn Pederson Fox Conway Associates, Inc. and worked on the Palmer Residence and Estate, Edwards, Mississippi; Sony Music Corporation and the lobby renovation at 477 Madison Avenue, which received a Tucker Design Award from the Building Stone Institute. In private practice in Atlanta, Gordon worked on projects for The Coca-Cola Company, Good Shepard Community Church, Spa and Restaurant at Baltimore Row, Kozmo Gastro Pub and on several residences.

Gordon has served as an invited lecturer at the Ecole d'Ingénieur Polytechnique Feminine (EPF), Sceaux, France. She has also served as a guest studio critic at the University of Arkansas, Ball State University, Kansas University, Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Southern Polytechnic State University, and Columbia University.

She has also served as a peer reviewer for conference abstracts and several book proposals. Gordon contributed the chapter, "In the Making, Creative Thinking in the Architectural Design Studio," in "Part IV: Embodied and Phenomenological Approaches in Beginning Design," to the book, Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design, edited by Stephen Temple and published by Routledge in 2018.