Kevin Sloan is a landscape architect, writer and educator. The work of his professional practice has been nationally and internationally recognized, published and exhibited. In devising a prototypical street section as a biofilter, the planning and landscape architecture for the Urban Reserve in north Dallas earned international design recognition from Eco-Structure magazine as “One of Seven Innovative Projects in 2009.” The studio earned the highest distinction from the ASLA, a 2011 Award of Excellence for the Urban Reserve and a 2012 Award of Excellence for billion dollar Sprint World Headquarters in Kansas City. Kevin Sloan Studio has collaborated on urban design and landscape architecture with OMA, Foster + Partners, SOM, Perkins + Will, Max Levy Architect and 5G Architecture Collaborative.
Mr. Sloan holds a master of architecture from Syracuse University where he won the Briton Medal for best thesis and top graduate student. A 2000 Harvard Loeb Fellow finalist and 2000 runner-up for the Steedman Prize, he has taught architecture, landscape architecture and urban design at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, The University of Texas-Austin and is currently a professor in practice at the University of Texas at Arlington CAPPA.
Sloan has written for a broad range of professional journals in the US and internationally, including Topos, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Texas Architect, Arquine and TCHAD Quarterly. He is a regular Community Voices columnist for the Dallas Morning News. Currently serving as the Assistant Chairman for the Dallas Urban Design Advisory Committee his travel sketches include several exhibitions. The Ken Roberts Delineation Competition awards the Kevin Sloan Travel Sketch Prize annually.