About ken

Winner of the 2019 Florida ICAA Chapter's Mizner Award for a single family residence over 10,000 square feet, the ICAA's 2008 Shutze Award, the 2018 Pinnacle Award, the 2018 Luxe Reader’s Choice RED Award for Best Classical House and three-time winner of Southern Progress Corporation’s Southern Home Award, architect Ken Tate received his Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University in 1975. His thesis, Architecture in Search of a Soul, revealed an early interest in ancient and pre-Industrial forms, pluralism, and intuitional fascinations that still inform his work. Upon completing his degree, Tate worked with architectural visionaries Bruce Goff in Texas and Sam Mockbee in Mississippi. After practicing briefly with Colonial Revival-inspired architect Richard Davis in Dallas, Tate started his own firm in 1984 in Mississippi. Since that time, he has designed more than 70 houses, including a 12,000 s.f. Federal-style compound in the Kentucky horse country, an 11,000 s.f. French Colonial compound in Houston, a 13,000 s.f. Italian Renaissance villa on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, an 11,000 s.f. Norman-influenced estate in Mississippi, and a 13,000 s.f. French Colonial-inspired compound in New Orleans. He has also designed estates in 16 states: California, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina and Tennessee to name a few, and in The Bahamas. Tate’s work has been published in many magazines including Architectural Digest, Luxe, Veranda, Milieu, Robb Report, Forbes, Southern Accents, and The Classicist, as well as books including the artist’s four monographs, The New Old House, and The Southern Cosmopolitan. In 2010, he was an AD 100 architect in Architecture Digest. His creative memoir, The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate he wrote with his son, Duke, landed on The London Times Literary Supplement's Best Books of the Year List in 2020. He is retired and currently dedicating his life to writing and painting.