David Mohney has taken a one-year-leave from the University of Kentucky College of Architecture to help create the Michael Graves School at Kean University, which will have two campuses, one in New Jersey and the other in Wenzhou, China.
On Saturday, Michael Graves, who has taught at Princeton University since 1962, was honored by a less famous New Jersey institution: Kean University, a school with two campuses in the northern part of the state. The ceremony marked the opening of Kean’s newest division, the Michael Graves School of Architecture, for which the 80-year-old architect is helping to plan the curriculum. Among those joining Graves at the ceremony was David Mohney, the school’s acting dean, who studied with Graves at Princeton more than 30 years ago. After receiving his M.Arch. from Princeton, in 1981, Mohney practiced in New York for 10 years (with several stints teaching at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design) before becoming dean of the University of Kentucky College of Architecture. He left after 14 years as dean to set up and run the Curry Stone Design Prize—an award that recognizes new design ideas with global impact. Still on the Kentucky faculty, he has taken a one-year-leave to help create the Michael Graves School, which will have two campuses, one in New Jersey and the other in Wenzhou, China.
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