After Architecture,
LLC
info@after-architecture.com





MISSION

After Architecture is an architecture studio named to convey the built environment's impact on cultures and ecologies. Our work responds to and confronts the environmental crisis.

We have completed projects for a wide range of clients, from civic institutions and arts organizations to universities, corporations, and private clients. Recent works include a memorial in Washington D.C., an installation at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth, and an installation at the Knoxville Museum of Art.

FIRM ACCOLADES
Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellows, 2022-23
☆ Cultured Magazine Young Architects List, 2021
Architect Magazine Next Progressives, 2019
☆ Curbed Young Guns, 2014

RECENT PROJECT ACCOLADES
Architect Magazine R+D Award, 2022
The Architect’s Newspaper Best in Digital Fabrication Award, 2022
The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award in Research, 2021
☆ 2 Society of American Registered Architects National Design Merit Awards, 2022
AIA Central Virginia Bi-Annual Design Awards, Honor Award in Architecture, 2022

FIRM PROFILES
Archinect Small Studio Snapshots
Tongues Interview
Curbed Young Guns List
Curbed Young Guns Finalists
☞ Cornell Alumni Magazine

UPCOMING LECTURES
🎙 2023 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations @ Columbus, Indiana City Hall, February 25, 2023

RECENT LECTURES
🎙 Social, Environmental, and Economic Sustainability Pecha Kucha, Georgia Tech School of Architecture, December 1, 2022
🎙 Curated Urbanisms in a Drawdown Lecture Series, Univeristy of North Carolina Charlotte, November 16, 2022
🎙 “Tangential Timber: Non-linear Wood Masonry Construction” at Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, October 28, 2022
🎙 “(re)Building through Disruption: Biomaterials” @ AIA Virginia Conference, November 3, 2022
🎙 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium @ Columbus, Indiana City Hall, October 22, 2022
🎙 Natural Building Materials Panel @ Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, October 10, 2022

RECORDED LECTURES & PODCASTS
🎙 “Lush: From Field to Fabrication”@ the University of Tennessee Knoxville, September 20, 2021
🎙 “This is America: Design Practices Memorializing Difficult Histories”, @ Brown University, April 13, 2021
🎙 “Growing, Buliding” @ the University of Virginia, February 23, 2021
🎙 “Growing Buildings” @ Public Bldg, August 27, 2020
🎙 “After Specification” @ the University of Virginia, July 31, 2020
🎙 “How After Architecture Balances Practice with Materials Research” @ Architect Magazine Podcast 
🎙 “After Specification” @ Pecha Kucha Knoxville, November 16, 2019

RECENT PRESS & REVIEWS
The Architect’s Newspaper
The Republic
Journal of Architectural Education


FOUNDERS




KATIE MACDONALD, AIA NCARB
KATIE@AFTER-ARCHITECTURE.COM
   
Katie MacDonald is a licensed architect in Virginia and Massachusetts, Cofounder of After Architecture, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. She is Director of the Before Building Laboratory at UVA and Co-Curator of the Biomaterial Building Exposition.

MacDonald pioneers new biomaterial assemblies, with the aim of creating building material systems that sequester carbon and reduce construction’s contribution to the environmental crisis. Current projects focus on rapidly renewable biomaterials, including wood, bamboo, grass, various invasive plant species, and hemp.

EDUCATION
︎ M.Arch. Harvard University
︎ B.Arch. Cornell University

PRIOR EXPERIENCE
︎ Morphosis Architects
︎ Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
︎ Clive Wilkinson Architects
︎ Stayner Architects
︎ MALL

AWARDS
☆ University of Virginia Outstanding Researcher Award, Research Achievement Awards, 2022
☆ Tennessee Architecture Fellowship, 2019-20
☆ Emerging Designer, Virginia by Design Awards, 2018 
☆ Housing Design Education Award, American Institute of Architects and  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2020
☆ Paul M. Heffernan Travel Grant, 2015

PRESS
UVA Today
Richmond Magazine
Madame Architect Profile
Madame Architect Favorite Things
Madame Architect Days With


KYLE SCHUMANN
KYLE@AFTER-ARCHITECTURE.COM

Kyle Schumann is Cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is Co-Director of the Before Building Laboratory at UVA and Co-Curator of the Biomaterial Building Exposition.

Schumann seeks to advance the accessibility of digital fabrication, leveraging democratized technologies in his teaching and research as well as inventing and building low-cost ground-up fabrication and imaging systems. His work spans analog processes in woodworking, metalworking, casting, ceramics, and textile production, to advanced and novel digital fabrication technologies, robotics, and machine visioning systems.

EDUCATION
︎ M.Arch. Princeton University
︎ B.Arch. Cornell University

PRIOR EXPERIENCE
︎ Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
︎ Anmahian Winton Architects

AWARDS
☆ University of Virginia Outstanding Researcher Award, Research Achievement Awards, 2022
Design Build Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2023
☆ Tennessee Architecture Fellowship, 2019-20
☆ Robert A.M. Stern Architects Travel Fellowship, 2017
☆ Princeton University Fellowship, 2016-8
☆ William S. Downing Prize for Architectural Design, 2012

PRESS
Madame Architect