After Architecture,
LLC
Charlottesville, VA
info@after-architecture.com
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., and installations for Exhibit Columbus, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
FIRM ACCOLADES
☆ The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, 2023
☆ 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
☆ 2 Society of American Registered Architects National Design Merit Awards, 2022
☆ AIA Virginia Awards Merit Award for Excellence in Small Project Design, 2021
☆ AIA Central Virginia Bi-Annual Design Awards, Merit Award for Design Excellence, 2020
FIRM PROFILES
☞ The Architectural League of New York
☞ Archinect Small Studio Snapshots
☞ Tongues Interview
☞ Curbed Young Guns List
☞ Curbed Young Guns Finalists
☞ Cornell Alumni Magazine
UPCOMING LECTURES
🎙 Public by Design: Activations in Space - The 2023 University Design Research Fellowship Colloquium, November 2–3, 2023, Columbus, Indiana
LECTURE & PODCAST RECORDINGS
🎙 League Prize 2023 Night 3: Katie MacDonald & Kyle Schumann, Joseph Altshuler & Zack Morrison, June 29, 2023, 6:30 pm EST
🎙 “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 LECTURES
🎙 2023 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations @ Columbus, Indiana City Hall, February 25, 2023
🎙 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
RECENT PRESS & REVIEWS
☞ Architectural Record “The 2023 Architectural League Prize Winners Aren't Afraid to Get 'Uncomfortable'”
☞ The Architect’s Newspaper “Winners of the 2023 Architectural League Prize respond to discomforts within our environments”
☞ Arch Daily “The 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers Announces the Winners”
☞ Architect Magazine “The 2023 Architectural League Prize Winners Explore the Uncomfortable”
☞ Archinect “Nine architects and designers named 2023 Architectural League Prize winners”
☞ The Architect’s Newspaper “Exhibit Columbus’s 2023 Winter Presentations offered the public a chance to comment on the upcoming round of installations”
☞ The Republic “Irwin Block bricks to be in exhibition installation”
☞ Journal of Architectural Education “Biomaterial Building Exposition”
KATIE MACDONALD
COFOUNDERAIA NCARB
KATIE@AFTER-ARCHITECTURE.COM
Katie MacDonald is a licensed architect in Virginia, Cofounder of After Architecture, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
MacDonald is Director of the Before Building Laboratory at UVA, where she leads material research and development. 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.
In 2022, she co-curated the Biomaterial Building Exposition.
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
COFOUNDERKYLE@AFTER-ARCHITECTURE.COM
Kyle Schumann is Cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
Schumann is Director of the Before Building Laboratory at UVA , where he leads robotic fabrication research and development. Schumann seeks to advance the accessibility of digital fabrication, leveraging democratized technologies 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.
In 2022, he co-curated the Biomaterial Building Exposition.
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