John A. Loomis

Professor Loomis joined KFF in November of 2004 as Director of Development and Communications. In this capacity he manages external relations and works in many development capacities with KFF to take CyArk public and implement its mission.

John brings to KFF and its heritage pilot project CyArk a multidisciplinary career that spans architecture, teaching, scholarship, and writing. He is a native fourth generation Californian with a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Art History from Stanford University . He has a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University , and is a licensed architect registered in New York where he lived and worked for fifteen years. There he was an associate architect with Kiss+Cathcart Architects where his responsibilities ranged from design to project management on projects of diverse scales. He also taught architecture at the City College of New York where he was a tenured Associate Professor. He returned to California and was Chair of Architecture at the California College of the Arts from 1998 to 2002. During that period he led the faculty and students through a successful accreditation, initiated development of a graduate program, and raised funds that launched a program website and supported a lecture series of internationally prominent architects. Since then he has taught architecture and urban history at University of San Francisco and Stanford University .

As a scholar and author, John has over 40 published articles to his credit in journals such as: World Monuments , Architectural Record, San Francisco Chronicle, Architecture, Harvard Design Magazine, Urban Land , and Casabella . He is past executive editor for Design Book Review . His book, Revolution of Forms, Cuba 's Forgotten Art Schools , examines the convergence and collision of architecture, ideology, and culture in 1960s Cuba through the architectural design for the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte. This book prodded the Cuban government to commit to the preservation and restoration of these works of architecture, and has received an award from the World Monuments Fund. John's other activities involving Cuba have been chairing the 2002 ACSA International Conference “Architecture, Culture, and the Challenges of Globalization – Havana /La Habana” and as a member of the 2002 California State Business Delegation to Cuba .

John lectures widely on a broad range of issues involving architecture and urban design. These lectures have occurred at: Harvard University, Stanford University, The Getty Center, Columbia University, the Graham Foundation, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Instituto Superiore di Architettura di Venezia.

Honors and awards include a World Monuments Fund Certificate of Significant Accomplishment, Honors from the XII Bienal de Arquitectura de Ecuador , NEA Award for Superior Design, and AIA Education Award. He has been a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute.

He lives in San Francisco with his wife Dee LaDuke and his 10-year old son Ely.