Jamie von Klemperer

Architect

Jamie von Klemperer is a prominent American architect and President at the global firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) where he leads the firm’s global community of designers setting the bar for impactful architecture in urban centers around the world.

Jamie von Klemperer in Confluence


Architects are jacks-of-all-trades

Architecture is a public art

Architecture is for everybody

Architecture is almost permanent

Architecture, mother of all arts

Architecture provides a need

Architecture with a blank slate

Buildings have meaning

Completing One Vanderbilt Ave

I care about every surface

My early interest in architecture

My family made things

My obsession with drawing

My relationship with engineers

Tall buildings are exciting

The evolution of the NYC skyline

The materials of the city

Engineers & architects collabing

Architecture’s social & artsy parts

The steps of designing a building