Kyle Troyer (MArch'23)

Kyle Troyer is an aspiring architect from Berlin, Ohio, that finds his work embedded in challenging conventional understandings of aesthetics through drawing, imagery, and physical models. Holding a strong affinity to craftsmanship and handicraft, many of the projects that have been completed during his time at Penn question materiality, form, and tectonic systems as a method of pushing architecture into a lesser-known domain. He received his Bachelor of Science of Architecture from the Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design and is currently pursuing his Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.

While continually growing as a student and designer at his time at Penn, he has collaborated with Overlay Office, FORMA, and Endemic Architecture while holding teaching assistant positions within the program. Here, he has received the following recognition for his academic and extracurricular work: the Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architecture Innovation, the Mario J. Romanach Fellowship, the First Prize E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship, the Schenk-Woodman Merit Scholarship, a third-place award at the 2021 HOK Futures Design Challenge, and a first-place award at the 2022 HOK Futures Design Challenge.