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Keith Mitnick is Associate Professor of Architecture at The University of Michigan where he held the 2000 Sanders Fellowship in Architecture. Prior to coming to Michigan he taught at The University of California, Berkeley and is a founder of the design practice Mitnick Roddier Hicks. He has received several design and research awards including a Graham Foundation grant and The Burnham Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. He has published essays on his own design work as well as that of Diller+Scofidio and Eduardo Souto Moura.

The work of Mitnick Roddier Hicks has been featured as part of the Emerging Practices series in Architectural Record as well as the On the Boards series in Architecture Magazine, and has been exhibited in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Paris. The firm has received numerous awards including the 2004 Young Architects Forum award from the Architectural League of New York, The Unbuilt Architecture award from the Boston Society of Architects, and an Honorable Mention for their entry to the San Francisco AIDS Memorial Competition. Their recently constructed Split/View pavilion is on permanent exhibition on the grounds of the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will be included in the upcoming publication XS Green: Big Ideas, Small Buildings. Mitnick Roddier Hicks are among ten international firms featured in Architectural Record's 2005 Design Vanguard awards issue. His book, Artificial Light, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2008.