Sunday, February 20, 2022
We will remember Ken as truly adventurous spirit who never stopped learning and never stopped making. It was a true privilege to have known Ken and we will miss him terribly.
My brother, Kacper, and I met Ken in the late 1990’s. At that time, we answered many of Ken’s questions on how to use Photoshop and other computer software. I remember he used a lined, yellow paper pad and meticulously wrote down the directions so that he could repeat the exercises after we left. Over many years, Ken’s methodical approach was so effective that we thought that Ken was satisfied and would sit on his laurels. We were, of course, wrong. Ken always wanted to learn something new. When he learned that I started teaching SketchUp at NCC, Ken wanted to take the course.
I was able to visit his modernist Pound Ridge home he designed and built in 2017. I was impressed with the meticulous thought that went into every corner of the house – the alcove shelf he purposely designed for a sculpture he made, the skylighted hallway that invoked an art gallery, and every view carefully considered. A patio door that framed a gargantuan ledge outcrop (where the rain forms a temporary waterfall), an Eames chair placed in the corner of the main entrance besides a massive window that looked through the woods and to the pond beyond, an office that fronted the driveway with his architectural models and a design desk (and view) that any architect or designer would envy.
In 2019, a mere two years after finishing what might be considered a crowning architectural achievement, Ken was working on his next house, this time a shard-like house that was going to literally be a part of the landscape. He had made a cardboard model (which was his usual design process before getting into any drawings) and wanted to explore the design digitally in 3D because he wasn’t sure how he wanted to connect the triangular shard roofs that were at different angles in the model. Sadly, we never got to see the result of those experiments.
We are sending our deepest sympathy to Ken’s Family.
Rem Bigosinski
Kacper Bigosinski
