Keith Kaseman is a designer, production strategist, experimental technologist, and architecture educator. Before joining UTK as Associate Professor of Practice in 2024, he held an array of academic posts including the University of Pennsylvania (2004-2014), Columbia University GSAPP (2005-2014), the University of Tennessee Knoxville (2014-2016), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia | IAAC (Barcelona, ES, 2020-2022), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (2016-2023). Keith’s academic work has been exhibited in New York, NY; Venice, IT; Paris, FR; and extensively in Rio de Janeiro, BR. Keith co-founded the spatial practice KBAS with Julie Beckman after their design for the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial (dedicated in 2008) was unanimously selected by an esteemed competition jury in 2003. Over the next decade, KBAS developed a diverse portfolio of work, with notable projects in Philadelphia, PA; Brooklyn, NY; Salt Lake City, UT; Atlanta, GA; and Knoxville, TN. Before launching KBAS, Keith served as a designer and project manager for SHoP Architects (New York, NY), where he played a critical role in several of their early, formative projects. Keith is also currently a designer and special operations project manager at Sanders Pace Architecture (Knoxville, TN).

Bachelor of Science in Design | Architecture, Arizona State University
Master of Architecture, Columbia University – GSAPP