ARCHITECTURE: The Integration of Art and Science

Our colleague and friend Kent Bloomer passed on October 22, 2023. 

Kent Bloomer, 1935-2023: Yale School of Architecture Obituary

I’ve known Kent since 1980. He was one of the four professors in the core program that I attended as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture. I deeply respected Kent and his design critiques.

In the early 2000s, Kent and I reconnected, and our firms collaborated on five New Haven public schools. It was so exciting to merge such beautiful and meaningful ornament that the Kent Bloomer Studio produced with the architecture of our school designs. 

Aside from my personal grief, I feel the world has lost an amazingly talented and significant man. Kent’s strident fight for ornament and against modernist minimalism is one of his many legacies that has impacted the architectural profession as well as my firm’s work.

I will miss Kent’s talent, professional collaboration, friendship, and his whimsical theatrics when gesturing about ornament.