September 1, 2023
Rob Rogers named Victor L. Regnier distinguished visiting chair
The College of Architecture, Planning & Design, or APDesign, announces Rob Rogers, founder of ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers, as the 2023-2024 Victor L. Regnier distinguished visiting chair.
The Victor L. Regnier distinguished visiting chair was established in 2003 by the children of Victor and Helen Regnier to enrich the educational experience of Kansas State University architecture students by exposing them to the finest architects from around the world.
Rogers founded ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers in August 2013. For more than 30 years, Rogers has explored the edges of architecture and the overlap of disciplines: the spaces where architecture, landscapes and the public realm converge.
Rogers creates institutional and cultural buildings that are civic works. From reinventing the security bollard to redesigning a subtle icon on the National Mall, Rogers continually elevates accepted conventions in his quest to develop intelligent, rich and timeless contributions to our physical environment. Believing that even a single building is a piece of urban design, his work assertively and elegantly combines urbanism, landscape and architecture.
A recognized leader in advancing new urban technologies and programs, Rogers has lectured on urban design and security in Lower Manhattan for the National Capitol Planning Commission and the National Academy of Sciences. He presented as keynote speaker for the National Building Museum's Spotlight on Design and the Malaysian Institute of Architects in Datum, Kuala Lumpur.
Rogers has served as a professor and architecture critic at prestigious design schools and universities around the country, including Harvard University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Yale University, The Pratt Institute, Parsons the New School for Design, Syracuse University, Iowa State University, Washington University in St Louis, Southern California Institute of Architecture and Tulane University, and he held the Cullinan Chair in Architecture at Rice University. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
As chair, Rogers will co-teach a fifth-year architecture graduate studio in close cooperation with assistant professor Zhan Chen. The chair is also encouraged to contribute to the theory segment of the curriculum through seminar presentations devoted to topics decided between the chair, faculty and students of the fifth-year studio program. Exposure to all levels of students will be possible through involvement in reviews, projects or events. The chair will present at least two formal lectures. One lecture will be delivered on campus for the K-State students, faculty, local professionals and local community. The other lecture will be delivered in the Kansas City metropolitan area, providing exposure to alumni, practicing professionals and the greater Kansas City community with special linkages to the arts.