Kirk Conover RA
Kirk Conover has practiced architecture for more than forty years. He attended Amherst College and received his BA cum laude in 1969. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1976.
After working for Peter Gisolfi Architects, Kirk joined Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. He became an Associate in 1990, and was the Project Architect on such projects as the San Francisco Main Library, the Jacob Javits Convention Center, the Meyerson Symphony Center, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In 1993, Kirk started a position at BORA Architects as Project Architect for the city’s Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. Kirk became an Associate Partner at BORA in 1998.
Beginning in 2006, Kirk worked in Paris with Arquitectonica Selarl on an urban master plan in Malta as Project Architect, and with Oger International as team leader on the King Abdulazib Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia.
In 2014, Kirk worked for two years for Stephen Yablon Architecture in NYC as an Associate and Project Architect on CUNY academic projects before joining Richard McElhiney Architects in 2016. At RMA, Kirk has been Project Manager on such projects as the renovation of The Dining Hall Building at The Hill School, the renovation of Knapp Hall at Farmingdale State College, and studies for the renovation of historic buildings at Cornell University.
Kirk has been a visiting critic at the University of Oregon, a visiting teacher in architecture at public schools, and a worker on Habitat for Humanity projects.
