Faculty Profile

Kent L. Hubbell is a licensed architect and was president of Chrysalis Corp. Architects until 1984 when he formed K.L. Hubbell Inc., Architects. Hubbell has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, Cornell Council for the Arts, and the Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan.  

Hubbell is the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students for the university and was the Nathaniel & Margaret Owings Distinguished Alumni Professor and department chair from 1993–98. He taught at the University of Michigan for 18 years and was chair of the architecture program from 1985–93. He also taught at Yale and has been lecturer, juror, and critic at numerous schools in the East and Midwest.

He received his B.Arch., 1969, from Cornell, and a M.F.A. in sculpture, 1973, from Yale. In 1969–70 as a Peace Corps architect he designed and built dispensaries, schools, and small hospitals in Micronesia.

• Led collective effort to “A Faculty Handbook for Recognizing and Responding to Students in Distress” for distribution to Cornell faculty (2009)
• Architecture and Urbanism, with Joseph Valerio, Chrysalis East: Project for Hershman Residence, Chicago (1979)

• National AIA Honor Award to Chrysalis East, Architects (1981)
• The Samuel Eels Award in recognition of outstanding service to education, Alpha Delta Phi (1999)
• AIA Honor Award (States of Wisconsin, Michigan) (1992)
• Governor's Award for Design Excellence, Design-Michigan (1977)
• CPAI International Achievement Award for Shade Canopy (1981)

• Dean of Students