Studio
Charlottesville, Virginia
After Architecture, LLC is an award-winning 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 including Landmark Columbus Foundation, The Architectural League of New York, the Washington D.C. Department of General Services, Lycoming College, Cornell Botantic Gardens, and Marriott. Recent works include a memorial in Washington D.C. and installations for Exhibit Columbus, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.
After Architecture has been recognized with The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers in 2023, awarded the University Design Research Fellowship for the 2023 cycle of Exhibit Columbus, included on Cultured Magazine Young Architects List in 2021, featured as Next Progressives in Architect Magazine in 2019, and named Curbed Young Guns in 2014.
Recent Highlights
JUNE 7, 2024
Sylvan Scrapple awarded AIA National Small Project Award.
MAY 31 - JUNE 1, 2024
MacDonald & Schumann lectured and installed Crinkle Cuts at Future View: Vernacular Typologies symposium at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.
MAY 1, 2024
Sheets & Slabs installed at Gilmer Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
AUGUST 25, 2023
Sylvan Scrapple installed at the 4th cycle of Exhibit Columbus: Public by Design, in Columbus, Indiana.
MAY 3, 2023
After Architecture awarded The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers from the Architectural League of New York.
Recognition
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
PROJECT ACCOLADES
International
☆ Architect Magazine R+D Award, 2022
☆ The Architect’s Newspaper Best in Digital Fabrication Award, 2022
☆ The Architect’s Newspaper Best in Digital Fabrication Honorable Mention, 2023
☆ The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award in Research, 2021
National
☆ AIA National Small Project Award, 2024
☆ Society of American Registered Architects National Design Award Material Sciences Category Winner, 2023
☆ Society of American Registered Architects National Design Honor Award, 2023
☆ Society of American Registered Architects National Design Merit Award, 2023
☆ Society of American Registered Architects National Design Merit Award, 2022
☆ Society of American Registered Architects National Design Awards Honor Award, 2019
Regional
☆ AIA Virginia Design Awards, Honorable Mention in Small Projects, 2023
☆ AIA Virginia Awards Merit Award for Excellence in Small Project Design, 2021
☆ AIA Central Virginia Bi-Annual Design Awards, Honor Award in Architecture, 2022
☆ AIA Central Virginia Bi-Annual Design Awards, Merit Award for Design Excellence, 2020
☆ AIA Los Angeles Next LA Honor Award, 2014
Recordings
🎙 League Prize 2023 Night 3: Katie MacDonald & Kyle Schumann, Joseph Altshuler & Zack Morrison, June 29, 2023, 6:30 pm EST
🎙 Natural Building Materials Panel @ Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, October 10, 2022
🎙 “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
Katie MacDonald, AIA
COFOUNDER
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.
MacDonald was named Educator of the Year in Metropolis Magazine's Planet Positive Awards in 2023 and Emerging Designer in the 2018 Virginia by Design Awards. She is a member of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture's Board of Directors. 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
☆ The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, 2023
☆ Cultured Magazine Young Architects List, 2021
☆ Architect Magazine Next Progressives, 2019
☆ Emerging Designer, Virginia by Design Awards, 2018
☆ Curbed Young Guns, 2014
☆ Educator of the Year, Metropolis Magazine Planet Positive Awards, 2023
☆ University of Virginia Outstanding Researcher Award, Research Achievement Awards, 2022
☆ Housing Design Education Award, American Institute of Architects and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2020
FELLOWSHIPS
☆ Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowship, 2022-23
☆ Tennessee Architecture Fellowship, 2019-20
☆ Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, 2017
☆ Paul M. Heffernan Travel Award, 2015
Kyle Schumann
KYLE@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.
Schumann was awarded the Design Build Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in 2023. 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
☆ The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, 2023
☆ Cultured Magazine Young Architects List, 2021
☆ Architect Magazine Next Progressives, 2019
☆ Curbed Young Guns, 2014
☆ Design Build Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2023
☆ University of Virginia Outstanding Researcher Award, Research Achievement Awards, 2022
☆ William S. Downing Prize for Architectural Design, 2012
FELLOWSHIPS
☆ Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowship, 2022-23
☆ Tennessee Architecture Fellowship, 2019-20
☆ Robert A.M. Stern Architects Travel Fellowship, 2017
☆ Robert James Eidlitz Fellowship, 2017
☆ Princeton University Fellowship, 2016-8