Bill Gallagher & Don Paine
"Now that Transit has Found its Partner, What's Next?"
KGP Design Studio, Washington D.C.
Lecture: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 6:00PM | ARCH 132 DF Pray Lecture Theatre
Sponsored by pilipili AIAS
As our cities and suburbs are reinventing themselves following a challenging past 4 years, the way and ease that we move to and within a city continues to be its lifeblood, but we are by nature, dare I say lazy and impatient. A transit system, driven by efficiency, has its limitations, and us humans have our limitations, about ¼ mile, to be exact. Beyond that we will decide a transit station is too far and we’ll drive instead. If there were a way to increase that effective radius to just one mile, 1600% more of us would use that transit station. And there is. Its called micromobility. While still in its infancy we haven’t quite decided how to build this partnership. We will explore this and other active mobility options and how we have attempted to build this partnership with various modes of transit over the past few years.
As the founding principals of KGP Design Studio, Bill Gallagher and Don Paine have led the firm since its establishment in a beach cottage basement on Waikiki Beach. Bill leads the firm’s urban design, planning and transit studio gaining experience with Harry Weese, designing the Washington Metro System. Don leads the architectural and urban design studio, being the design lead on all projects. Both have about 40 years’ experience designing and integrating transit systems that have played vital roles in the development of communities in local and regional environments. Some of the many projects include Honolulu Transit, Manila MRT, Tel Aviv Red Line and Dulles Rail. One of the smallest projects is the Bicycle Transit Center at Union Station, DC, which won the Brunel Award. Paine has a M.Arch from Harvard and Gallagher a master’s in architecture and urban design from Harvard.
KGP Design Studio based on the premise that architecture is not an isolated event but is a continuous experience inclusive of the “places in between”; the public realm: civic architecture, transportation networks, streets, and so on are dynamic interfaces and equally critical aspects to include as design professionals. With offices in Washington, Honolulu and Manila, the firm has a diverse multidisciplinary design team, sharing resources globally, to provide the best possible support for their clients.
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