Kyna Leski, Principal, received her Bachelors of Architecture from The Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1985 and Masters of Architecture II from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1988. In 1998 Kyna received First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, for which there were 480 entries. Her Project “Dream House” was published in the Phaidon Press Book, Modern House 2, by Claire Melhuish. In 2000, she was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. The Architectural League of New York selected her as one of five winners of the “Young Architects Competition” in 1997. In 1991, was chosen as one of 13 international designers to design a turned wooden bowl for Drefox, a wood turner in Vienna which became part of the permanent collection of the Museum fur Angewanthe in Vienna, Austria. Kyna has received a grant and an Artist’s Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her prior work experience was as a designer at D.D.R. Eisenman / Robertson and at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, New York. Currently, she is serving as the “City Architect Design Decision Review Advisor” to the Mayor of Providence, the Planning Department, and the City Planning Commission and Downcity Review Commission.
Kyna Leski is professor of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design where she has been the primary author of the first semester core design curriculum since 1989. She has just completed a book on this pedagogy, called, The Making of Design Principles (www.symposiumbooks.com). Professor Leski served as the Chief Critic of the RISD European Honors Program in Rome from 1993 to 1995.
Chris Bardt, Principal, earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1983 and a Masters of Architecture II from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1988. He was a designer with James Stewart Polshek and senior designer with Kohn Pedersen Fox from 1983 to 1986. He has been a registered architect since 1988 and is licensed to practice in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Tennessee. In 1995, His project, “Sunwork,” was awarded a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and was selected for construction and exhibition by the “Convergence Arts Festival.” In 2007 His paper on the design of Masonry Units was published by and presented at the National Concrete Masonry Association conference. Chris’s professional work has been exhibited at the Cranbrook Academy, the ETH Swiss Technical University and The Architectural Association in London, which also published his research on the sun in the journal, A.A. Files. The project has since been published in the Journal of Architectural Education and VIA Arquitectura. Currently Chris serves as a member of the Quonset Development Corporation Design Review Board.
Professor Bardt has been a member of the Architecture Faculty at The Rhode Island School of Design since 1988. He teaches upper level studios, Architectural History, Foundation courses and has coordinated Design Principles and Degree Project. He has been a visiting Professor at Cornell University and at the National Academy of Design and Art, Slovakia.
Jack Ryan, Associate, has been with 3six0 since 2000. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from The Rhode Island School of Design, as well as the distinguished AIA Henry Adams Medal (Silver) for Excellence in 2000. He is licensed to practice architecture in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He has previous work experience at Lamoureux Pagano- Associates, Friedrich St. Florian, Architect and Stempelform. Recently he completed the “Bench Mark” competition in Westport, MA where he was commissioned to design and fabricate a pair of benches. He was the winner of the Boston Society of Architects Project Kiosk Competition and placed second in the YPAC Affordable Housing Completion sponsored by Boston Society of Architects and Habitat for Humanity. He has completed the schematic design of a corporate research headquarters for a sustainable paper company in Chong-Qing, China. He is an adjunct faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Architecture.
Manuel Cordero Alvarado Project Architect, earned his undergraduate degree from Yale College and received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded the Sandy Hirschen Award, the Laub Fellowship and the prestigious John K. Branner Fellowship. He is licensed to practice architecture in Rhode Island. In 2005, he received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation and has helped shepherd several LEED projects through design and construction reviews toward certification. Manuel has worked for Lerner | Ladds + Bartels in Providence, Gelfand Partners in San Francisco and Erwin Rodriguez and Associates in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has several years of experience in large scale educational, institutional and hospitality projects.
Aaron Brode, Project Architect, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 1995 and his Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal (Gold) for Excellence in 1999. He has previously worked with Marmol Radziner and Associates and Rees Studio in Los Angeles. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Architecture.
Olga Mesa, Project Architect, received her bachelor of Fine Arts and Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, as well as the AIA Henry Adams Medal (Gold) for Excellence in 2000. She has previous work experience in Los Angeles with Gensler: Architecture Design and Planning Worldwide, and with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, designing and managing projects ranging from residential and renovation work to mixed-used buildings. She achieved her accreditation in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in 2002. She is an adjunct faculty at Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Architecture and in 2007 & 2008 co-coordinated a core design studio.
Eleanor Lee, Project Architect, received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999 and her Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. She has previously worked with Perkins & Will in Boston and Murdock Young Architects in New York City, designing and managing adaptive reuse projects.
Nick Croft, Designer, received his Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from the University of Washington in 2005 and his Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal (Gold) for Excellence in 2008. He has previously worked with Studio Luz Architects in Boston and for Daniel Libeskind in New York City.
Staff 1997-2009: Jack Ryan, Curtis Boivin, Bon Ho Koo, Marcel Madsen, Brandon Andow, Brian Callahan, Andrew Crocker, Grace Gihm, Colleen Hindarto, Hana Kim, Chris Nanning, Lilian Ng, Benjamin Pearce, Amy Thornton, Jacob Wangh, Jose Vargas, Kelly Ennis, Tim DeCoster, Michael Williams, Nick Croft, Shane Zhao, Yu Morishita, Aaron Brode, Olga Mesa, Eleanor Lee, Charlie Thorton, Joshua Fiedler, Markus Berger, Manuel Cordero, Jesen Tanadi, Alice Hsieh, Daniel Lee, Joshua Lantzy, Lucia Milini.
