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Carrie Norman is an architect working at the intersection of observation, particularity, and the alterations of architecture through social, cultural, and critical reuse. Before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was an Assistant Professor at Tulane University and has previously taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Barnard College, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2023, she served as the Louis Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. Norman holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia and a Master in Architecture from Princeton University. She is a licensed architect in New York, Louisiana, and Illinois. Norman has extensive experience as a Senior Architect at SHoP Architects in New York City and co-founded the Chicago and Cambridge-based design collaborative, Norman Kelley, in 2012. Her practice spans residential architecture, commercial interiors, furniture design, exhibition design, and design criticism. Notable clients include Aesop, the Noguchi Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her work has been published in various prestigious journals and has been featured in architectural exhibitions such as the Venice Architecture Biennial and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2018, her practice received the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture.