Kate Yeh Chiu
lives and works on Tongva land (Los Angeles)
is half of yyyy-mm-dd

Currently

directs Materials & Applications (M&A); teaches at the University of Southern California School of Architecture; is co-curating, 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 and Science Collide; edits-at-large The Avery Review

Recently

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, access, and cultural expression with specific attention to marginalized communities _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 materialisms at Woodbury University _2022.01.03←joined the University of Southern California School of Architecture as part-time faculty _2021.08.2←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 a M.Arch from Princeton University SoA _{2018.06.05 (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) _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 described as a “nerdy thrill” _2018.03.08←crossed the Atlantic aboard a cargo ship, 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~~←with Andrew MacMillan, found a lot of nice posters and then co-curated the exhibition Collateral _2016.09.19←lived in an upstate 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 _2016.04.11←became an editor of Pidgin Magazine _2015.10.1←left LA to begin graduate school at Princeton University _2015.09.08 ←began working at Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in Los Angeles _2012.12.0←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

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