Kenneth MacKay

Kenneth S. MacKay, AIA has more than thirty years’ experience teaching architectural design studios. A practicing architect who has won several design awards for completed structures, he is also a two term past president of AIA Buffalo/WNY. A past board member of AIA New York State, he has been on the jury for the AIA New York State Design Awards.

MacKay received his professional degree in architecture from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University. Both his built projects and his scholarly work focus on natural and artificial light, building systems integration and the role that each of these play in generating form and space. For the past ten years he has served as the Comprehensive Design Studio Coordinator (now Synthesis & Integrated Design Studios). In 2015 he was one of four faculty advisors for UB’s entry into the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon and was later responsible for the reconstruction of the house on a temporary location on campus.

For the past twenty years he has taught the required professional practice course at the University at Buffalo and in 2019 was designated an NCARB Scholar in Professional Practice. A former Intern Development Program Coordinator, he has received the Mentor of the Year Award from AIA Buffalo/WNY. In addition to leading eight summer study abroad programs in Ireland and Scotland, he is the Study Abroad and Exchange Program Director for the School of Architecture and Planning.