Cathy Simon is an architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects whose practice has spanned five decades, focusing on transformative design at all scales. Her award-winning work includes design for higher and secondary education, civic and commercial buildings, reinvention of historic structures, waterfront projects, and urban planning schemes for numerous post-industrial waterfront sites in and around San Francisco.
She is the founder of SMWM, a celebrated women-owned architecture and urban design practice that opened offices in San Francisco and New York during the mid-1980s. In 1999, after fifteen years of practice, SMWM became the youngest firm to be honored with the AIACA Firm Award, which the American Institute of Architects awarded for the consistent production of distinguished architecture. Her firm later joined Perkins + Will, where she served as a senior consulting design principal before retiring in 2018. Having gained expertise in the revitalization and resiliency of the post-industrial waterfront, she is currently an urban design and architecture consultant to a multi-firm engineering team developing the Waterfront Resiliency Program for the Port of San Francisco.
Educated at Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), she has served as the President of the GSD Alumni Council and spent several terms on the GSD Visiting Committee. She has taught architecture at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, where, in 1996, she was the Howard Friedman Distinguished Professor of Architecture in Practice.
Cathy Simon is an architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects whose practice has spanned five decades, focusing on transformative design at all scales. Her award-winning work includes design for higher and secondary education, civic and commercial buildings, reinvention of historic structures, waterfront projects, and urban planning schemes for numerous post-industrial waterfront sites in and around San Francisco.
She is the founder of SMWM, a celebrated women-owned architecture and urban design practice that opened offices in San Francisco and New York during the mid-1980s. In 1999, after fifteen years of practice, SMWM became the youngest firm to be honored with the AIACA Firm Award, which the American Institute of Architects awarded for the consistent production of distinguished architecture. Her firm later joined Perkins + Will, where she served as a senior consulting design principal before retiring in 2018. Having gained expertise in the revitalization and resiliency of the post-industrial waterfront, she is currently an urban design and architecture consultant to a multi-firm engineering team developing the Waterfront Resiliency Program for the Port of San Francisco.
Educated at Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), she has served as the President of the GSD Alumni Council and spent several terms on the GSD Visiting Committee. She has taught architecture at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, where, in 1996, she was the Howard Friedman Distinguished Professor of Architecture in Practice.
Cathy Simon is an architect and a Fellow of the
American Institute of Architects whose practice has spanned five
decades, focusing on transformative design at all scales. Her
award-winning work includes design for higher and secondary
education, civic and commercial buildings, reinvention of historic
structures, waterfront projects, and urban planning schemes for
numerous post-industrial waterfront sites in and around San
Francisco. She is the founder of SMWM, a celebrated women-owned
architecture and urban design practice that opened offices in San
Francisco and New York during the mid-1980s. In 1999, after fifteen
years of practice, SMWM became the youngest firm to be honored with
the AIACA Firm Award, which the American Institute of Architects
awarded for the consistent production of distinguished
architecture. Her firm later joined Perkins + Will, where she
served as a senior consulting design principal before retiring in
2018. Having gained expertise in the revitalization and resiliency
of the post-industrial waterfront, she is currently an urban design
and architecture consultant to a multi-firm engineering team
developing the Waterfront Resiliency Program for the Port of San
Francisco. Carrie Eastman is a writer and designer
who practices landscape architecture independently after having
spent 15 years working on large-scale public projects in and around
New York City. She is an editor of In Search of African American
Space (Lars Müller Publishers, 2020), a forthcoming book in which
African American spatial typologies are reconsidered. She has a
Master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of
Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in the history of art and
architecture from Brown University. Ashley Simone
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Analysis of Built Form (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2015),
Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design (Zurich: Lars Müller
Publishers, 2017), Two Journeys (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers,
2018), Frank Gehry Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1. 1954-1978 (Paris:
Cahiers d’Art, 2020), and a co-editor of In Search of African
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Chronicle — a post that ranges from architecture and planning to
landscape architecture and the public realm of cities in all its
forms. Justine Shapiro-Kline is an architect and
urban planner who has worked across the U.S. on planning
initiatives and infrastructure to advance adaptation to climate
change and its impacts. Laurie Olin is a
distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned
landscape architects practicing today.
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