KEVIN GORDON: JOYOLOGY

Wobbly thoughts on design from an undisciplined mind

Feb 14, 20237 min read

Penance

As I crest the ninth drop of 12 on the Coney Island Cyclone ride of this life, I’m looking for a career change. Something less office...

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Nov 15, 20228 min read

Scoutus Interruptus

(Warning- this post is boorishly full of the first person singular tense) I’ve become a hermit. Saint Kevin of Cobb. (For anyone...

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Jan 12, 20228 min read

Cleaven

A quarter-century ago, I was exiled out of New York. The bridge and tunnel crossings were closed to me. When asked to explain my...

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Jun 17, 202013 min read

PARADOX OF SOURCES

Six times zones from Atlanta, and forty years apart, I was enrolled at the Architecture Association of London, trying to understand what...

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May 6, 20204 min read

NEW NORMAL

I always tell inquirers that I left New York for Atlanta because of the Federal Witness Protection Program. Two adaptations have been...

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Feb 10, 20206 min read

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

This proclamation will surprise those familiar with my narrow band of emotions, but I have a CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH from the State of...

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Dec 16, 20196 min read

Manual Labor

I taught for a few years after graduate school. I wasn’t very good at it, owing to both the lack of any truly meaningful insights of...

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May 22, 20196 min read

Turntable in the Shower

I worked most evenings in high school. Not so much out of economic necessity, dates and gas were cheap in rural Ohio in the 70’s, but...

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May 22, 20193 min read

The Dead-Line

For most of us, I mean those of us who were publicly schooled and didn’t suffer the reality of a boarding school, the Julian calendar...

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May 22, 20194 min read

The Future of Design: Where's the Heat?

A close friend of mine, Satoshi Ohashi, was the visionary architect Zaha Hadid’s employee number 4, back when her office occupied only...

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May 22, 20194 min read

The Social Contract

In the now third trimester of my life outside the womb, I’m realizing that the best moments of that life have been happenstance, and as a...

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May 22, 20193 min read

Bespoke

A “friend” of mine, Sara, is a bartender in a neighborhood Atlanta restaurant. She is a parenthetical “friend” because she pretends to...

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May 21, 20195 min read

Saint Kevin

I’m assuming that most all of the three letter architectural firms, TVS, SOM, HKS, etc. require each employee to submit to, and submit,...

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May 21, 20193 min read

Funny Business

Truth be told, I’m the world’s leading expert on humor in Architecture. It is a club of one, of which I am president, scribe and...

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May 21, 20194 min read

Truth Machine

Truth be told, I’m a liar. Although not one of the seven deadly sins, lying is a deal breaker in the Boy Scout code of ethics. A Scout is...

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ABOUT

Kevin Gordon is a principal and firm sector leader at tvsdesign in Atlanta, Georgia. The following are some of his favorite recent projects:

Atlanta, GA

College Football Hall of Fame

Wuxi, China

Wuxi International Convention Center

Nashville, TN

Music City Center

Daytona Beach, FL

Ocean Center

Fort Mill, SC

LPL Financial

Nanjing, China

Nanjing International Expo Center

Yinchuan, China

Ningxia International Convention Center

Memphis, TN

Memphis Convention Center Renovation

Guri-city, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Guri City

Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion

GET IN TOUCH

kgordon@tvsdesign.com