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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)

Freelance
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?

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.

“Who is the Architect?”

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.

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.

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.

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