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h o n o r i n g t h e g i f t a n d l e g a c y o f
MICHAEL ROSS KERSTING
“It’s a Michael Kersting” is all that needs to be said for it to be inherently understood that
the architectural design you are about to see will knock your socks off.
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BEGINNING in the 1990s,
Michael Kersting, AIA, conceived
architecture no one dreamed
possible, wowing the most
seasoned veterans and raking in some of the
most prestigious awards in the country.
With each rock-star custom home, with
each transcendent commercial project,
the name Michael Kersting became more
renowned and prominent.
Kersting decided to become an architect
while in kindergarten, when he took up
building blocks that later turned into
building forts with friends growing up in
Las Cruces, New Mexico. The first home
Kersting designed was a traditional adobe
style villa in the Rio Grande while he was still
in grad school.
In a 2015 interview for NCModernist
celebrating the 20th anniversary of Michael
Ross Kersting Architecture PA, Kersting
talked about those who inspired him. He
named his high school drafting teacher and
college professors at the University of New
Mexico and grad school at North Carolina
State University as well as fellow architects
and colleagues. His biggest influence,
he said, was a book he read cover to cover
nearly every day of his childhood entitled
Andrew Henry’s Meadow.
By Amanda Lisk
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Michael Kersting’s architectural designs have won multiple prestigious awards throughout the years including the 2017 Matsumoto
People’s Choice First Place Prize for this design of “Run Ashore” located on Figure Eight Island, which also won the 2016 AIA Wilmington
Merit Award.
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