about
Rebecca Taylor received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pacific Lutheran University in 2010 and a Master of Architecture from Portland State University’s School of Architecture in 2020. She was involved with the Center for Public Interest Design (CPID) from 2016 - 2020 and was awarded a Student Fellowship at the CPID in 2017 and has now completed her last and third year as a fellow in June 2020. Taylor returned to Kaua’i after completing her formal architectural education and hopes to practice architecture on the island for many years to come. She is interested in the practice and policy regarding architecture and design, and how it can begin to positively influence - or explore answers to - perennial political, economic, or social problems or questions we experience here on a local scale. Further, her passion extends to how that exploration can begin to find agency in larger discussions of similar problems and questions on domestic and even international scales.
“The kiss offers to architecture, a field that in its traditional forms has been committed to permanence and mastery, not merely the obvious allure of sensuality but also a set of qualities that architecture has long resisted: ephemerality and consilience. However long or short, however socially constrained or erotically desiring, a kiss is the coming together of two similar but not identical surfaces, surfaces that soften, flex, and deform when in contact, a performance of temporary singularities, a union of bedazzling convergence and identification during which separation is inconceivable yet inevitable.” Sylvia Lavin
Lavin, S. (2011). Kissing Architecture. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt7t23m