Kirby’s Featured Showcase

Kirby's architectural accomplishments, including banks, residences, and churches have been universally recognized and published.

Kirby's teaching and his publications are known throughout the world and his students, numbering in the thousands, consider him one of their greatest professors. He pioneered video teaching with 20 videos known as The Design Drawing Videotapes. Kirby was a lecturer at more than 25 universities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Mexico, as well as conductor of national and international workshops for students, teachers, and professionals.

Kirby's many honors and awards include the Western Mountain Region AIA’s highest award - the Silver Medal, the Inaugural Educator Award from the AIA, and an Historical Landmark designation by the city of Tucson for the home he designed and built for his family.

Drawing Exercise – Kirby

“If you would learn to draw

Hold the instrument often

and hold it with your head.” – Kirby

Select Project Illustrations

Kirby Lockard House

Dove of Peace Lutheran Church

John J Priest Residence

Select Awards and Honors

  • 1969 Regional Award of Merit, Dove of Peace Lutheran Church, Tucson, Arizona, AIA.

  • 1969 The University of Arizona's Creative Teaching Award and "Acknowledged as one of the top teachers of architectural graphics in the United States" and the "Prime influence on generations of young architects in this country."

  • 1976 Third prize at a national urban housing competition in Miami, Florida.

  • 1976 Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

  • 1989 Silver Medal, Western Mountain Region, American Institute of Architects.

  • 1995 Inaugural Educator Award, AIA.

  • 2020 Historical Landmark designation by the city of Tucson, Kirby Lockard House.

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A life of great influence