Hello! Welcome!

My name is Keren Dillard. I am a creative from Yonkers, New York, working within the intersections of Architecture, Design and Journalism.

º Architeture &
Design
Journalism

º Spatial Design

º Furniture Design

º Barnard College of
Columbia University
Bachelor of Arts
Major: Architecture
Dual Minor: Africana
& Italian Studies

º Princeton University
School of
Architecture
Master of
Architecture

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Winter 2024/25

BAD.d
The Black
Architecture & Design Digest

Black Architecture and Design is often highlighted but never the central focus. The BAD.d newsletter is a project that attempts to bring the Black Design Experience to the forefront of the design communities attention.

Summer 2023

Princeton University School of Architecture Butler Travel Fellowship

Charleston, SC
Charlottesville, VA
Montgomery, AL
New Orleans, LA

Black American slavery in the United States was an institution based on land use and various spatial organization practices.
Two questions of inquiry are:

What are the ways in which architecture was used to affirm Black American enslavement?

Which architectural techniques of oppression have prompted cultural responses by way of spatial patterning and movement?

2020-2024

“Signs of the Times”
Cultural Preservation collaboration with
While We Are Still Here

Harlem, NY

While We Are Still Here, a nonprofit organization formed by residents of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue, has been working to install 25 historic markers across Harlem as a response to the aggressive threat of gentrification’s erasure of Black history in the neighborhood.

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Butler Travel Fellowship :
Post-Emancipation Slave Cabin Extension

Butler Travel Fellowship:
Partial Property Numbering in Charleston, SC

Signs of the Times:
Sign in preparation for unveiling

Signs of the Times:
Nelson Mandela Historic Marker on 125th St. in Harlem NY

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