John Kneski

John Kneski (born 1964 in Westhampton, New York). At first primarily interested in music, he played alto saxophone in the Hamptons Music Festival Orchestra. Several of those performances were recorded with Teo Macero who had had been the producer at Columbia Records of the works of Charlie Byrd, Tony Bennett, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington, and for Columbia.
Working in constructuion in the Hamptons during the 1980s, he was surrounded by architecture designed by some of the most famous architects of that time. Subsequently, he was drawn to the profession and studied architecture as an undergraduate at the University of Miami in Florida under Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Those years included studies at the Architectural Association in London, the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, and the Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in Cracow, Poland. Upon completing a thesis on the influence of Tuscan Vernacular on Italian Modernism, he received a terminal degree in architecture (M.Arch.II) from Syracuse University.
His architectural apprenticeship was conducted at the reknowned firm of Norman Jaffe in Bridgehampton New York.
In 1989, he founded a furniture design practice in Miami with an artist from Madrid, Beatiz Novoa. The gallery was well receivedMi Casa (periodical citation). Sep 07, 1993, by Willy Blanco. "Picasso Ceramics Exhibition" , if not short lived . Several research books were produced with his students between 2001 and 2010 and are now included in the Library of Congress . He presided over a council of over 30 academic institutions as the President of the Florida Collegiate Honors Council , and as an elected member of the Council on Undergraduate Research in Washington DC. In his career as a preservationist, he has been involved at the grass roots level in projects such as neighborhood preservation and historic designation. Leading to the creation of Miami's fourth officially designated historic district, he authored the Historic Survey & Contributing Structures Report for Spring Garden on the Miami River, settled in 1846. He has lectured extensively on topics from the History of Museum Design to the History of Urban Planning. His research today centers on the scientific studies of Thomas Jefferson. He resides in Miami and the Hamptons.

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