Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Masters in Architecture, Concentration in History, Theory and Criticism. GPA: 3.91Davidson College, Davidson NC Bachelor of Arts in History, Minor in Spanish. GPA: 3.26 (Major 3.5, Minor 3.35) History Thesis: “Economics,Technology, and the Synthesis of Neoclassicism and Early Modernism: The Chicago Architecture of Charles B. Atwood, 1891-5”Los Angeles Instititute of Architecture and Design, Summer Program, Los Angeles, CAStudy Abroad:

Modern Architecture in the Modern City, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands Studied Spanish, German, and Dutch History +Theory of Architecture and UrbanismBuenos Aires, Argentina, Studied Spanish Language and Argentine Architecture, History, Culture, Art, and LiteratureCadiz, Spain, Studied Spanish Literature, Culture, History, Art and ArchitectureOther Travel Abroad: Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, France, England, Morocco, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay

Model Fabricator John Portman and Associates, Atlanta, GA Collaborated with Project Architects and Other Designers on Various A + UD ProjectsGraduate Teaching and Research Assistant Introduction to the Designed, Lived, and Built Environment, Georgia Tech, Prof. Khan Produced, delivered, and graded a series of architecture lectures to 150 undergraduates Survey of Architectural History II, Georgia Tech, Dr. Flowers Researched various texts on pedagogical strategies for architecture history Survey of Architectural History I, Georgia Tech, Dr. Hollengreen Tutored a class of 130 graduate and undergraduate students on writing and studyingTranslator + Laborer Ewell Construction, Redondo Beach, CA Cal West Construction, Redondo Beach, CA Served as immediate correspondent between client and workers, translating English and Spanish; gained fundamental understanding of building constructionCirculation Desk Worker Davidson College, E.H. Little Library, Davidson, NC Oversaw assistance of patrons and organization of books in all areas of the library

Georgia Tech Campus Planning and Design Commission (PDC), Student RepresentativeGeorgia Tech AIAS Executive Board, HistorianGeorgia Tech College of Architecture Lecture Selection Committee, MemberGeorgia Tech Student Council, MArch Core II-III Studio RepresentativeGolden Key Honor Society, Georgia Tech ChapterPi Kappa Alpha, Beta Chapter, Davidson College Sergeant-At-Arms: Led house redecoration committee and oversaw risk avoidance Treasurer: Managed $50,000 budget involving 40 students and cookPatterson Court Council, Davidson College Chancellor: Acted as vice-president of student body that governed eight fraternites and four women’s eating houses; managed completition of Standards Program

Portman Prize ($500), Georgia Tech, Honorable MentionTeaching Assistantship ($4,200 / Semester), Georgia TechJohn William Sandeford Memorial Fellowship ($2,500), Georgia TechLevering Grant for History Majors ($800), Davidson College

Modern Atlanta, “Umbralux,” Co-Designer, Fabricator, and InstallerModern Atlanta, “Lichtraum,” Design Team Coordinator (Fabrication + Installation)Galleria di Architettura, Roma, “Coded Surfaces,” Design Team (Fabrication + Installation)

2-D / 3-D Drafting: Autodesk AutoCAD and RevitImage Editing: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator3-D Modeling: Rhino with Grasshopper, Autodesk Maya, SketchUpPresentation: Adobe InDesign and Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut, MS Powerpoint

NICK KAHLER215 North Ave NE, Apt. 3018, Atlanta, GA, 30308 | 678-480-4384 | nkahler3@gatech.edu

Education

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Installations

ComputerSkills

May 2012

May 2009

June - Aug. 2008

May - Aug. 2011

Aug. - Dec. 2007

June - July 2007

Fall 2011

Aug. - Dec. 2011

Jan. - May 2011

Aug. - Dec. 2010

July 2008June 2008

Aug. 2006 - May 2009

Aug. 2010 - Aug. 2012Aug. 2011 - May 2012Aug. 2011 - May 2012Aug. 2009 - May 2010Dec. 2009 - May 2012

Dec. 2006 - May 2007Dec. 2005 - Dec. 2006

Dec. 2006 - May 2007

Apr. 2011Aug. 2010 - Dec. 2011Spring 2010Fall 2008

May - June 2010May - June 2010May - June 2010

NICK KAHLERPORTus FOLIum

CKPO

IOO

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Zoning = Pocket Park

Duplication Mutation Insertion + Deletion MutationBasic Site Strategy TranslocationMutation Point MutationInversion Mutation

Inhabitable StructureUrban Edge Mezzanine Discretion Blue Brick Brise SoleilGreen Roofs

Type Human Hand Skin Blood Vessel Cell Nucleus Metaphase Chromosome Active Chromosome DNA

Scale 101 m 10-1 m 10-3 m 10-4 m 10-5 m 10-6 m 10-7 m 10-8 m

String of Nucleosomes Nucleosome DNA ReplicationProcess

The Scale of the Genome: Human to Atomic

Diagram

Extensive Roof Garden

ParkingDeck

ExhibitionSpace

Support Labs

IncubatorLabs

LibraryLibrary

StorageMechanicalRoom

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ParkingDeck

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Library Retail

ConferenceRoomConference

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Clinic

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Mechanical Room

PlumbingRoom

ElectricalRoom

North Avenue

PeachtreeStreet

Entrance + Lobby

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Retail

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Library

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Cafeteria

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GenomeExhibition

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Extensive Roof Garden

Extensive Roof Garden

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Clinic

Clinic ClinicClinicWaiting

HVAC SupplyHVAC Exhaust

B, 2-4 Floor Plans

Mechanical Mezzanine Floor Plan

Site Plan

Longitudinal Section Facing NorthTransverse Section Facing East

this project for a genome research center in atlanta embraced two central contingencies of contemporary science facilities: fl exibility and serendipity. under the conceptual framework of mutation, vertical circulation, mep, and structural systems combined to form vertical box trusses as the primary element of the parti while zoning concerns were solved directly by doubling setbacks to create a pocket park and retail.

the concept of the broadcast corridor is fundamental to this school of music on the georgia tech campus. this building experiments with the traditional idea of a campus building with the heart of the hemphill corridor containing an exterior lobby, uniting the east performance program with the west education program, and broadcasting music across campus from overhanging balconies in practice and performance rooms alike.

Transverse Section Facing East Longitudinal Section Facing North

Site and First Floor Plan

Transverse Section Facing East

Perspective Facing North Along Hemphill Corridor Perspective Facing South to Tech Green

Perspective Inside Large Performance Hall Perspective Facing West into Projection Lobby

the design for the atlanta high school for the performing, plastic, and hybrid arts posits the clustering of pro-gram into three sitecast concrete boxes of education, exploration, and public components linked by a spine of circulation and two glassed-in atria as exhibition and gathering space. reinterpreting atlanta’s patchwork grids, the pixelated plans, sections, and elevations expose the disembodied nature of digital design.

City View Platform

Dance Studio

Sculpture Studio

Painting Studio

AuditoriumStage

AuditoriumBackstage

Base of Foundation-16’ 0”

Top of Basement Slab-13’ 0”

Top of Floor 1 Slab 0’ 0”

Top of Floor 2 Slab 15’ 0”

Top of Floor 3 Slab 30’ 0”

Top of Floor 4 Slab 45’ 0”

Top of Roof Slab 60’ 0”

Circulation Spine

Exploration

Program Clusters

Site Context

Public

Education

HastingsLofts

SalvationArmy

LawFirm

ClearvueGlass Co Timber

StorageLuckie

Grocery

Longitudinal Section Facing NorthTransverse Section Facing West

Site and First Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Site Diagram: Atlanta Patchwork Program Diagram: Clustering

Fourth Floor Plan

Detail Section Facing West

this project for argentine short story author and poet jorge luis borges is a duplex townhouse with retail in athens, georgia. guided by the phenomenological examination of the labyrinth in plan and section, it con-tains two apartments and a bookstore in four fl oors and a basement using bookshelves as all the partition walls and supported by a precast, loadbearing concrete structural system.

Longitudinal Section Facing East

Basement Floor Plan

Transverse Section Facing South

First Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Detail: Telescope to Ground

Detail: Cable to Fabric

Detail: Cable to Fabric

Detail: Telescope to Cables

Solar ShadingWater Repulsion

Public vs. Private

Dry WetWet

Wind Wind

OptionalHi-WindSteaks

Rain

Wind Resistance

PublicLoungingArea

ShadedHot

PrivateSleepingArea

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To: Technomad ATL

Subject: Mobilize, Piedmont Pk, 8PM

Get moving soon, the light is go

A) Recognize B) Communicate E) UnpackC) Mobilize D) Arrive

F) Construct G) Dwell H) DeconstructTypical Section

Typical Plan Axonometric Environmental Diagrams

Narrative

Deployment in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA

this proposal with toni cliett selects a certain existing and self-classifi ed type of nomad, one that functions in society in a predominantly digital manner. thus, these nomads isolate themselves from one another and from the basic structures of a physical community. this scheme incites physical, as well as digital, togetherness through constructing and cohabitating a series of clustered dwellings customized for these individuals.