Jeremy Kargon, Architect, LEED AP
Education
1988 Columbia University, Master of Architecture
1985 Yale University, Bachelor of Arts
Registration
Maryland (Granted 1992; active)
New York (Granted 1991; inactive)
New Jersey (Granted 1991; inactive)
LEED (Accredited since 2006)
Job History
2020 to Present CRGA Design, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 to 2020 Morgan State University, School of Architecture + Planning
Associate Professor (from May 2014)
Program Director (Aug. 2014 – Oct. 2018)
Assistant Professor (2009-2014)
Full-time Lecturer (2007-2009)
2003 to Present Jeremy Kargon, Registered Architect, Baltimore, Maryland
Sole Proprietor: Architectural Practice
2004 to 2007 HCM Architects, Baltimore, Maryland
CSD Architects, Baltimore, Maryland
Project Architect: Health Care, Housing, & Institutional
1994 to 2003 Schocken Architects Ltd. , Jerusalem, Israel
Schocken-Assayag Architects Ltd. , Jerusalem, Israel
Project Architect: Education, Institutional, & Technical
1991 to 1993 OptiCOM Visual Systems, Baltimore, Maryland
Sole Proprietor: Digital media and software R&D
1988 to 1991 GVA Architects, Columbia, Maryland
Bonnett & Brandt, Baltimore, Maryland
Intern Architect: Education, Commercial, Institutional
Publications
Book Chapters
“Israeli Architecture at a Turning Point: Designs for the ‘Israeli Center for Technological Awareness,’ 1978,”
in Israel as A Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978, edited by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Anat Geva. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2020.
“Seeing, not Knowing: Symbolism, Art, and ‘Opticalism’ in mid-Century American Religious Architecture,”
in Modernism and American Mid 20th Century Sacred Architecture, edited by Anat Geva. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
"Nature Versus Nurture: the Irony of Intervention, Despoliation, and Remediation", in Natureza, edited by Victor Manuel Canedo Neves.
Lisboa: Universidade Lusíada, 2014.
Journal Articles
“Water and Space: A Primer for Architects,” under review.
“Broadcasting from the 'Mediated Center': Baltimore's Candelabra Television Tower, circa 1959,” Journal of Urban Technology, 27 (2020) online.
Printed version forthcoming April 2020.
“Art in Modernist Architecture: Two Installations by Amalie Rothschild and Percival Goodman’s Programme for Art,” Journal of Architecture 25/1 (2020): 24-44.
“Situational Ecumenism: The Architecture of Jewish Student Centers on American University Campuses.” Arts 8/3 107 (2019).
“Under Construction: Alternative Spaces of Discourse at the National Library of Israel,” Review of Middle East Studies 53/1 (2019): 1-24.
“A Symbolic Landscape for Suburbia: Baltimore Chizuk Amuno’s 'Hebrew Culture Garden.' ” Journal of Urban History 40/4 (2014): 677-706.
“The Logic of Color: Theory and Graphics in Christine Ladd-Franklin’s Explanation of Color Vision.” Leonardo 47/2 (2014): 151-157.
"One City's Urban Cosmography." Planning Perspectives 29/1 (2014): 103-120.
"Redefining the Typographical Architect: Analogy and Ethos for Contemporary Design Education." International Journal of Arts Education 3/3 (2013): 1-16.
“Critique of an 'Artefactual' Landscape: Erich Mendelsohn’s Engagement with the Built and Natural Environment.” Journal of Architecture 18/1 (2013): 1-24.
“Scanning Memory: Three Case Studies of Memorials in the Digital Age.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society 6/1 (2011): 153-164.
Co-written with Dr. Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University.
“Harmonizing These Two Arts: Edmund Lind’s The Music of Color.” Journal of Design History 24/1 (2011): 1-14.
“Thomas Poppleton’s Map: Vignettes of a City’s Self Image.” Maryland Historical Magazine 104/2 (2009): 185-207.
“Architecture: The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.” Curator: The Museum Journal 49/1 (2006): 90-94.
Conference Proceedings
“Baltimore’s Un-built Domed Stadium for 100,000 Spectators: Technology 'Transfer' or Technocratic 'Collision'?” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design (ARUD '13) / Energy, Environment, and Structural Engineering Series 15 (2013) 195-201.
“The Irony of Intervention,” Interdisciplinary Themes Journal 2/1 (2011).
“Changing Monuments and Monumentality: Reconstructing Perceptions of Civic Identity,” Interdisciplinary Themes Journal 1/1 (2009): 112-125.
“Content Seeking Students: Sight-and-Sound Bites as Participants in Ubiquitous Social Computing,” Changes of Paradigms / Proceedings of the 2008 EAAE/ARCC Conference 2, pp. 340-357. (Co-written with Dr. Wassim Jabi, Cardiff University.)
Books, Catalogues, and Pamphlets
The Sanctity of Others. (Baltimore: Design Research Bureau, 2016).
Book design for and essay about images by JK and poetry by Zackary Sholem Berger.
Baltimore's Modernist Religious Buildings. (Baltimore: DCenter, 2013). 1st Revision, 2015.
Quotidian Hypertopos: Skylines, Streetscapes, & Gardens in Contemporary China (Baltimore: Design Research Bureau, 2012)
Exhibition catalogue with notes by JK and essays by Gabriel Kroiz and Lori Rubeling.
Not in the Same Breath (New York: Yiddish House, 2011).
Book design and illustration of bilingual volume of poetry by Zackary Sholem Berger.
A Bridge over Time: the Thomas Viaduct (Baltimore: Baltimore Landmark Brochures, 2010).
Book design and illustration of text by James Dilts. Prepared for the Viaduct’s 175th Anniversary Celebration, July 2010.
Baltimore’s Book of Imaginary Buildings (Baltimore: Design Research Bureau, 2009).
Exhibition catalogue with notes by JK.
Homewood and the City: Geography, Ecology, and Infrastructure (Baltimore: 2009).
Illustrated essay based presented at Homewood Museum, April 2009.
ExANIMATION (Baltimore: 2009).
Annotated collection of photographs with architectural themes.
Articles about Projects or Work by JK
Gerr, Melissa, “Baltimore’s ‘Jewish’ Architecture Testament to Character, Conviction, Mobility of Its People, Part 2”
The Baltimore Jewish Times, March 18, 2016.
Gerr, Melissa, “Baltimore’s ‘Jewish’ Architecture Testament to Character, Conviction, Mobility of Its People, Part 1”
The Baltimore Jewish Times, March 10, 2016.
Farley, Michael, “D Center Explores Modernism’s Legacy,” Baltimore OUTloud, October 19th, 2012.
(Review of Gallery Exhibit including JK’s photography.)
Ran, Ami, “The Hidden Machine: Between High-Tech & Good Tech,” Architecture of Israel Quarterly. 2 (2006).
Review of Schocken Architects’ HaAretz Press Extension, for which JK was Project Architect
Ockleshaw, Alice. “Rowhouse Redux.” The Urbanite Magazine 5/9 (September 2005), pp. 25-27. (Profile of JK’s design for the House for Lot 107)
Selected Conferences, Symposiums, Exhibits, and Presentations
“New Infrastructure for New Media: Baltimore’s “Candelabra” Television Tower, circa 1959.” Paper presented at the 17th National Conference of the Society for City and Regional Planning History, Cleveland, October 26-29th , 2017.
“Defining Sacred Space: Modernist Architecture, Religious Symbol, and Regional ‘Opticalism.’ “Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians,Pasadena, April 6-10th, 2016.
“The Sanctity of Others.” Exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland Baltimore, April-May 2016. Jeremy Kargon, Images, essay, and exhibit design, with Zackary Sholem Berger, poetry.
“The Architecture of HBCUs: Principles, Legacy, Preservation.” Symposium organized by JK with Dale Green. Morgan State University, Baltimore, November 5th-6th, 2015.
“Jewish Art for Modern Architecture: Percival Goodman, Amalie Rothschild, and the Tactics of Accommodation at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 1950-1952.”
Paper presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Baltimore, December 14th, 2014.
“Art-in-Architecture and Regional Modernism: Six Site-specific Installations by Amalie Rothschild, 1951-1981.” Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the South-East Chapter of the Society for Architectural Historians, Fayetteville, Arkansas, November 1st, 2014.
“Post Mortem Architecture: The Morris Mechanic Theater.” Talk presented at “Lecture and Panel Discussion: Mechanic Theatre,” organized by AIA Baltimore, October 21st, 2014.
“Urban Renewal, Utopian Didacticism: This Can Be Baltimore." Paper presented at the annual meeting of Society for Utopian Studies, Charleston, November 16, 2013.
“Baltimore's Modernist Religious Buildings.” Exhibit at D:Center Baltimore, October-Nov., 2013. Jeremy Kargon, Curator, with Nancy Fox, Amy Frank, and Khashayar Shahkolahi. Based on a course originally co-conceived with Dale Green, AAIA. Shown again at James E. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, July -September, 2015.
“A Symbolic Landscape for Suburbia: Baltimore Chizuk Amuno’s ‘Hebrew Culture Garden.’ “Paper presented at the 101th Annual Conference of the College Arts Association, New York, February 16th, 2013.
“Introduction to Baltimore’s ‘Urban’ Cosmography.” Paper presented at the 14th National Conference of the Society for City and Regional Planning History, Baltimore, November 18th, 2011.
“Harmonizing These Two Arts: Edmund Lind’s The Music of Color.” Presented to the Society for History and Graphics, Baltimore, June 9, 2011.
“Baltimore’s Church Of The Redeemer: Evoking Emotion In Modern Architectural Space.” Presented to the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, Baltimore, May 25, 2011.
“The Irony of Intervention: Identifying Landscape amid its Despoliation and Remediation.” Presented at the conference Interdisciplinary Themes / The Planned World: Urban, Rural, Wild, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, Canada, August 6-7, 2010.
“From Building towards Landscape: Erich Mendelsohn and a Reconstitution of Geographical Forms.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, April 21-24, 2010.
“Changing Monuments and Monumentality: Reconstructing Perceptions of Civic Identity.” Presented at Interdisciplinary Themes / The City: Culture, Society, Technology, held at Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, November 6-8, 2009.