Including his time as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology, he has over 20 years of experience as an educator. Kuenstle received his Graduate Architecture degree from Columbia University in 1990, where he was awarded the William Kinne Fellows Memorial Fellowship for post-graduate research. Prior to attending Columbia University, he worked as a research assistant at the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism. Kuenstle is a licensed architect and currently serves as member of the Board of Trustees to the Florida Foundation for Architecture.