Cathrine Veikos

Biography

B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University
M.Arch, Harvard University

Cathrine Veikos teaches design studios and advanced seminars and coordinates the Visual Studies core sequence. She is a registered architect whose research addresses the relation between materials and media-based techniques in art and architectural practice. Her current project, Surface Effect examines these themes in the work of architect, Lina Bo Bardi. In 2007, she co-chaired the 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in Philadelphia.

She recently published "The Sheer Opacity of Contemporary Enclosure," and "To Enter the Work: Ambient Art" in the Journal of Architectural Education, "Arte Povera/Arquitetura Pobre" in architecture + art: new visions, new strategies: 2nd International Alvar Aalto Research Conference on Modern Architecture, and several papers on the changing role of representation in architecture for the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and Education and Research in Computer-aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe). Her research has been funded by the Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the Rotch Traveling Studio Scholarship, the Trustee's Council of Penn Women and the University of Pennsylvania Research Fund. She is a Cass Gilbert Fellow at the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Cathrine Veikos worked professionally in the offices of Roland Simounet and Jean-Paul Viguier, in Paris, and for SOM Chicago. She was principal and founder of atelier4Architecture (1993-1997), whose design work was published internationally. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, she was a Studio Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and taught at Tulane, Parsons School of Design in Paris and in the Career Discovery Program at Harvard School of Design.