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