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CATIE NEWELL www.cathlynnewell.com [email protected] 248.330.1410
NARRATIVE BIO: Catie Newell is the founding principal of *Alibi Studio, Detroit and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. She has a Masters of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Tech. In 2006 she won the SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design with her project Weather Permitting. Before joining the University of Michigan as the Oberdick Fellow in 2009, Newell was a project designer at Office dA in Boston. Newell’s work and research captures spaces and material effects, focusing on the development of atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light or lack thereof. The work often reconfigures existing domestic spaces. Newell's creative practice has been widely recognized for exploring design construction and materiality in relationship to location and geography, and cultural contingencies. Newell won the 2011 ArtPrize Best Use of Urban Space Juried Award and the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers
EDUCATION
Rice University Houston, TX Masters of Architecture, 2006. Honors
Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA Bachelor of Science, Architecture, 2003. Highest Honors Dave C. Garrett, President Scholar
Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Paris, France Georgia Tech Study Abroad Program, 2002-2003.
ACADEMIC
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Assistant Professor of Architecture 2011-present Lecturer 2010-2011 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow 2009 - 2010
PROFESSIONAL
*Alibi Studio Detroit, MI Founding Principal 2010 - present
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Office dA Boston, MA Project Coordinator, Project Designer, Project Architect Major Project Involvement as Project Lead: Bin 26 Enoteca, Banq Restaurant, Bina Osteria and Alimentari, Basho Restaurant and Bar 2006 – 2009
LEED Accredited Professional
HONORS AND AWARDS
Best Use of Urban Space, Artprize 2011. Salvaged Landscape Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, It’s Different, 2011 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow, University of Michigan, 2009-2010 SOM Foundation Inaugural Grand Fellow, 2006-2007: “Weather Permitting”. $50,000 Morris R. Pitman Travel Fellowship 2005: Japan “Awaiting Disaster” Margaret Everson Fossi Traveling Fellowship Award: 2nd place 2005 “Framing Publics”
EXHIBTIONS
Glass Cast, Research Through Making, Liberty Lofts, 2012 Once Residences, Installed, Taubman College Gallery, 2012 Diptych, Work Gallery, Detroit 2012. Salvaged Landscape, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, 2011 Salvaging, ReWork, Re|gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2011. Second Story, solo show, Extension Gallery, Chicago, 2011 Diptych, Architectural League Prize, group exhibit, Parsons New School Gallery, 2011. Make It Work: Creativity in the Great Recession, SoVA Projects Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, 2011 Salvaged Landscape, installation, Imagination Station. 2011. FIVE FELLOWS: FULL SCALE, project installation: Weatherizing, 13178 Moran St, Detroit MI, 2010. FIVE FELLOWS: FULL SCALE, College Gallery at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor MI, 2010 Into The Light, Honfleur Gallery, Anacostia, Washington DC, 2008 Aggregates, ACSA Dean’s Conference, 2004 Aggregates; Modulations, Kennon Memorial Symposium, 2004
PUBLICATIONS
“Five Fellows: Full Disclosure.” Ellie Abrons, Meredith Miller, Thom Moran, Catie Newell and Rosalyne Shieh, Pidgin 9, Princeton University School of Architecture, Fall 2010
“Above the Ceiling at a New Boston Restaurant,” Banker & Tradesman, May 2008, co-written with Charlotte Bouvier
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WORKS PUBLISHED
“Agitating Architecture: A Conversation with Catie Newell of Alibi Studio”, Materialism, Scapegoat Issue 02, Winter 2011.
“One House at a Time,” Karrie Jacobs, Metropolis Magazine, October, 2011.
“Domestic Intervention,” Architect’s Newspaper, Midwest 02, May 19, 2010.
“Site Amplification”. Everything Must Move. Edited by Luke Bulman and Jessica Young. Rice University School of Architecture, 2009.
Achim Menges and Michael Hensel, “Aggregates”. Versatility and Vicissitude. AD Magazine. March/April 2008.
Achim Menges, “Intergral Fromation and Materialization: Computational Form and Material Gestalt.” Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. Edited by Branko Kolarevic and Kevin R. Klinger.
Christopher Hight, “Social Friction” Morpho-Ecologlies. Edited by Michael Hensel and Achim Menges. Architectural Assocation, 2007.
“Site Amplification” Working: Design & Research, Volume 5. Rice School of Architecture, 2007.
“Coastal Entanglements” Cite 71: The Hurricane Issue. Rice Design Alliance. Summer, 2007.
Genetic Screening Framing Publics Generative Proto-Architectures Working: Design & Research, Volume 4. Rice School of Architecture, 2004-2005.
INVITED LECTURES
Once Residences Alone+Together: Art Gallery of Windsor and University of Windsor School of Visual Arts, 2012
House Chapter Extension Gallery, 2011
Alibi Studio: Domestic Interventions Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, 2011
Domestic Obsessions Madonna University, Humanities Exploration, 2011
Voluntary Obstacles University of Michigan Flint, Creative Education, 2010
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Detroit House PSFK: Detroit, 2010. Keynote.
Weather Permitting Rice University Spring Lecture Series, 2008
Swerve Georgia Tech: 100 years, Inaugural Common First Year Alumni, 2008
Walk Away Georgia Tech President’s Scholarship Program, 2008
Weather Permitting SOM offices guest lecturer 2008: New York, San Francisco, Chicago.
Anxiously Awaiting Disaster Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Conference, 2007
CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS/PANELS:
“Off Paper” Defiance: Disobedient Design, Detroit, September 27, 2011.
GRAM TALKS
“Alt Developments,” Rust Belt to Artist Belt, Detroit. Moderator and presenter. April 6-7, 2011
“Lucent City: Lights Out,” Atmosphere 2011: Mediated Cities, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, February 3-5, 2011
“Five Fellows: A Collaborative Confession” Flip Your Field, ACSA West Central Fall Conference in Chicago, October 21-23, 2010
PROJECT GRANT AWARDS
Research Through Making, 2011-2012, Glass Cast OVPR, 2011-2012, Glass Cast Center for Research on Learning and Teaching: Lecturer’s Professional Development Fund Award, 2010-2011. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching: Instructional Development Fund Award, 2010-2011. Lecturer’s Employment Organization: Professional Development Fund Award, 2009