Meet
the Dean
Kent
Lovering Hubbell is the current Dean of Students. He serves as
the primary liaison between students and university administration.
Dean Hubbell welcomes students' ideas and concerns during office
hours, or through email (dean_of_students@cornell.edu),
or phone calls to the Dean's "Warmline" (254-DEAN).
Kent L. Hubbell
is the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students and
Professor of Architecture at Cornell University. He received his
Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1969 from Cornell University,
and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture in 1973 from Yale
University. In 1969-70 as a Peace Corps Architect he designed
and built dispensaries, schools and small hospitals in the atolls
of Micronesia.
His responsibilities
as Dean of Students include: new student programs and student
support, student activities, fraternity and sorority affairs,
oversight of the student union and university ministries.
Hubbell is
Professor of Architecture at Cornell University where he was the
Chairman of the Architecture Department and Nathaniel & Margaret
Owings Distinguished Alumni Professor from 1993-1998. For 18 years
he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan
and Chairman of the Architecture Program from 1985-93. He taught
at Yale where he was Graham Foundation Research Fellow in the
Arts, and has been lecturer, juror and critic at numerous schools
in the East and Midwest
Hubbell is
a licensed architect and was President of Chrysalis Corp. Architects
until 1984 when he formed K.L. Hubbell Inc, Architects. The firms
have won numerous awards including a National AIA Honor Award
for the Hershman House, Chicago (1981) and various regional AIA
honor awards for projects in Michigan and Wisconsin. Hubbell won
a Michigan Governor's Award for Design Excellence, has received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York
State Council for the Arts, Cornell Council for the Arts and the
Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan.
Both architectural
firms have been especially well known for their work in the area
of fabric structures. Hubbell has completed a 5000 seat covered
river front theater for Chene Park, Detroit, a Metro Transit Park
and Ride facility in Seattle as well as designs for public events
facilities in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Michigan, and Taipei, Taiwan.
Hubbell's current projects focus on the creation of public events
facilities for the performing arts, including the design for a
summer theatre for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival and the Jackson
Symphony Orchestra.
