# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-kappe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:20.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-kappe"
name: "Ray Kappe"
slug: "ray-kappe"
description: "Ray Kappe was an American architect and educator. In 1972, he resigned his position as Founding Chair of the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and along with a group of faculty, students and his wife, Shelly Kappe, started what eventually came to be known as the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). In 2003, Kappe began working with LivingHomes to design modular homes."
tagline: "American architect (1927–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1927-08-04"
deathDate: "2019-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.93
  momentum:             15.51502145922747
  historical:           4.61764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%BE"
    title: "راى كاپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kappe"
    title: "Ray Kappe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kappe"
    title: "Ray Kappe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kappe"
    title: "Ray Kappe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kappe"
    title: "Ray Kappe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7297686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump