Judy Gordon

Judy O'Buck Gordon is a Licensed Architect, LEEDAP and Associate Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University. Gordon teaches a large lecture class, Building Construction Systems in Architecture 1, seminars with a focus on praxis and architectural detailing, and design studios. Her teaching, research, and writing address questions of architectural tectonics, materials, spatial sequence, natural light and making, with an emphasis on design thinking. She has presented papers on her research about teaching pedagogy, particularly on creative thinking and the spatial tectonics of the Gipsoteca Canoviana Addition in Possagno, Italy, by Carlo Scarpa, at national and international conferences. She has also served as a peer reviewer for conference abstracts and several book proposals. Gordon contributed the chapter, "In the Making, Creative Thinking in the Architectural Design Studio," in "Part IV: Embodied and Phenomenological Approaches in Beginning Design," to the book, Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design, edited by Stephen Temple and published by Routledge in 2018. Two of Gordon's papers have been published as eBook chapters: “The Liminal Seam in Architecture”, Play, Masks and Make-believe: Ritual Representations, 2022, (https://www.lcir.co.uk/publications/ and "Other Worldly Spaces”, With(out) Trace: Interdisciplinary Investigations into Time, Space and the Body, 2015, (https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/38419 ).