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Catie Newell is a Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She joined the faculty in 2009 after serving as the Oberdick Fellow. Newell received her Master of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in architecture from Georgia Tech. She is the founding principal of Alibi Studio, based in Detroit. Her work and research capture the spatial effects of materiality, focusing on the development of new atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light. Newell’s creative practice is widely recognized for her exploration of design and construction's materiality and specificity to location and geography. She has received several honors, including the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers and the 2011 ArtPrize Use Urban Space Juried Award. In 2012, Newell exhibited at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Cynthia Hazen Polsky Leon Polsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture for 2013-2014. She is also a Lucas Fellow, Kresge Artist Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science