Kevin
Kennon

Kevin Kennon is an internationally renowned architect with more than 40 years of experience designing landmark cultural, commercial, and hospitality projects around the world. Known for combining design ambition with deep human insight, he brings a humanity-first philosophy to architecture — creating spaces that do more than impress visually; they shape how people feel, connect, recover, and remember an experience.

As Founder and CEO of Beyond Zero DDC Inc., Kevin is leading the development of a new model of luxury hospitality: zero-carbon wilderness resorts designed around intimacy, wellbeing, adventure, and safety. Rather than treating sustainability as a marketing layer, Kevin approaches it as a natural consequence of building responsibly in remote environments — while placing the guest experience at the center of every design decision.

His portfolio includes the 1.5 million square foot Barclays North American Headquarters, the Rodin Museum in Seoul, multiple award-winning Bloomingdale’s stores, and leadership of United Architects, a finalist in the World Trade Center design competition. His work has been featured in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York, and he has received more than 40 international design awards.

Kevin’s expertise spans architecture, adaptive reuse, urban development, hospitality design, and high-level real estate advisory. He is also an expert witness and has lectured at leading institutions including Yale and Columbia, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to the built environment and the people it serves.

As a podcast guest, Kevin speaks most powerfully about the future of luxury hospitality, the psychology of guest experience, architecture as a tool for wellbeing, and how exceptional design can create places that feel both adventurous and profoundly safe. He is especially compelling for conversations at the intersection of luxury travel, hospitality, design, real estate, and investor-facing development.