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My name is Keren Dillard. I am a creative based in Yonkers, New York, working within the intersections of Architectural Design and Journalism.
Princeton University
Master of Architecture Candidate
(2024)
Master of Architecture Candidate
(2024)
Freelance
Writing & Design
(2019 - present)
Writing & Design
(2019 - present)
Latest Work
Princeton University School of Architecture Butler Travel Fellow
Summer 2023
Black American slavery in the United States was an institution based on land use and organizational practice.
What are the ways in which architecture has been used to affirm Black American enslavement? And do these same methods carry over into the Prison Industrial Complex?
What are the ways in which architecture has been used to affirm Black American enslavement? And do these same methods carry over into the Prison Industrial Complex?
Cultural Preservation Work with While We Are Still Here
2020-present
While We Are Still Here is a nonprofit organization formed by residents of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem, NY as a response to the threat of lost Black history due gentrification.
2022 & ongoging
A research project where I am working through the role of the architect through different professional identities and trying to validate; 1. Whether or not the architect should take on these roles and 2. How these roles play into the development of a white spatial imaginary.
Project Highlights
Project Highlights
House for Motherless Children & Childless Mothers
Princeton MArch I, Semester 3,
Fall 2022
A This is an investigation, set during the time of American Black enslavement, as a factory of sorts, that facilitates the birthing of Black women’s children and the lodging of children whose mothers were no longer present by result of death or transaction. Hidden in the poche is prgamming for the unimaginable, and surrounding spaces are appropriately sized for birthing, nursing, and embalming for the amout of bodies that passed through this space during this time period.
Princeton MArch I, Semester 3,
Fall 2022
A This is an investigation, set during the time of American Black enslavement, as a factory of sorts, that facilitates the birthing of Black women’s children and the lodging of children whose mothers were no longer present by result of death or transaction. Hidden in the poche is prgamming for the unimaginable, and surrounding spaces are appropriately sized for birthing, nursing, and embalming for the amout of bodies that passed through this space during this time period.
Untitled
Dimensions: L 55” x W 24” x H 14.5”
A beautifully hand-crafted solid wood adjustable leg coffee table made partially from reclaimed materials.
Dimensions: L 55” x W 24” x H 14.5”
A beautifully hand-crafted solid wood adjustable leg coffee table made partially from reclaimed materials.
Summer 2022
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The Floating Lady
Princeton MArch I, Semester 2,
Spring 2022
This project aims to find connections between the two stylistic extremes of modernism and Queen Anne and to juxtapose them by framing each on a 45-90º grid. Drawing from playful, dainty, romantic, and liberal, themes in a placeless manner, independent of idenficiation from front/back or beginning/ end.
Princeton MArch I, Semester 2,
Spring 2022
This project aims to find connections between the two stylistic extremes of modernism and Queen Anne and to juxtapose them by framing each on a 45-90º grid. Drawing from playful, dainty, romantic, and liberal, themes in a placeless manner, independent of idenficiation from front/back or beginning/ end.
Portfolio Here
CV Here
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