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Kate Yeh Chiu
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presented a lecture about Material Acts at the University of Illinois Chicago, organized in collaboration with MAS Context, with Jia Yi Gu (2025-03-20); launched (on the east coast) Material Acts at e-flux with Jia Yi Gu (2025-02-18);
presented Material Acts for The Library is Open 16 at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation with Jia Yi Gu (2025-valentine’s day); gave a lecture, “Experiments in Practice,” at the CU Denver College of Architecture and Planning (2024-10-10); co-curated, with Jia Yi Gu, the exhibition and publication Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design for Craft Contemporary as part of 2024 Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide (2024-09-28); curated We Carry the Land, an outdoor installation by six Native artists and designers, rooted in an alignment of varied Indigenous foundational ways of being (2024-05-25); curated Black — Still, an outdoor installation by enFOLD Collective exploring narratives of wellness and aesthetics of building labor (2023-05-28); curated Day/Dream, an exploration of transparency and its capacity for optical refraction and thermal caustics by Sara Suarez and Regina Teng for M&A’s storefront project space (2023-05-13); taught a vertical summer studio on collecting and collectivity at Kent State University CAED (2022-06-06); joined The Avery Review as an editor-at-large (2022-01-10); taught a seminar on materials and materialisms at Woodbury University (2022.01.03) ; joined the University of Southern California School of Architecture as part-time faculty (2021-08-02); joined Materials & Applications as Executive Director (2021-01-01); gave a yyyy-mm-dd talk about collaborating with (and not consuming!) building materials for the symposium “What is degrowth made from?” (2019-09-27); erected yyyy-mm-dd’s Another Column for the Oslo Architecture Triennale at the National Museum of Architecture, Norway (2019-09-26); as yyyy-mm-dd with François Sabourin, received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to explore building without binding (2019-07-27); joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture as Editor, Digital (2018-09-05); shared some maritime material in the Art Papers issue “Ports of Call” (2018-summer); received an M.Arch from Princeton University SoA (2018-happy birthday, Mom!); presented a design thesis that asked: if architecture is aggregates in temporary formation, couldn’t we just bag it up? (2018-05-21); speculated about speculation at The Sea Ranch for San Rocco Magazine (2018-05-07); wrote, with Emma Benintende, about the theming of Michael Graves’ Swan and Dolphin Hotels for Pidgin 23...and on a related note, Pidgin Magazine is now un-themed (2018-04-12); organized the conference Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies with Women in Design and Architecture (WDA) at Princeton University (2018-03-30); designed and co-authored Keywords; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, et c. (Princeton University Press), which The New Yorker describes as a “nerdy thrill” (2018-03-08) ; crossed the Atlantic Ocean aboard a cargo ship (MSC Buxcoast, now MSC Sophie VII), thanks to Princeton University’s Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship (2017-08-14); was an education fellow at Triple Canopy (2017-06-19) ; showed work in Close Reading: Formal Analysis in Architecture during the Milan Triennale (2017-04-03) ; helped organize and produce the conference and exhibition Zaha Hadid: Pedagogy as Practice (2017-03-30); found, with Andrew MacMillan, a lot of nice posters and co-curated the exhibition Collateral at Princeton University (2016-09-19); lived in an upstate NY barn and worked at Stan Allen Architect (2016-06-24); participated in Triple Canopy’s Publication Intensive (2016-06-06); did some salvaging and helped produce the exhibition Salvage at Princeton University SOA Gallery (2016-04-11); became an editor of Pidgin Magazine (2015-10-01); began graduate school at Princeton University (2015-09-08); began working at Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in Los Angeles (2012-12-01); was a grants fellow at the Graham Foundation (2012-06-25); finished a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at the University of Chicago (2012-06-09)