V. Mitch McEwen

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V. Mitch McEwen
Born1978 (age 44–45) [1]
Washington, DC
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Harvard College, Columbia University
OccupationArchitect
ProjectsHouse Opera : Opera House, [2] Methexis: The Algorithmic Recitative [3]

V. Mitch McEwen (born 1978) is an American architect and urban planner, [4] cultural activist, [5] and Assistant Professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture. [6] She is co-founder of Atelier Office, a design and cultural practice working within the fields of urbanism, technology, and the arts. [7] McEwen is a co-founder and member of the Black Reconstruction Collective [8] and a board member of the Van Alen Institute in New York. [9] She was given the 2010 New York State Council on the Arts Independent Projects Award for Architecture, Planning and Design. [1]

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Education and career

McEwen earned her Master of Architecture degree at Columbia University in New York City [10] and a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College in Cambridge, MA. [9]

McEwen was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 2014 to 2017; [11] in the fall of 2017, she joined Princeton as an Assistant Professor in Architecture. [6]

In 2014, McEwen received a Graham Foundation research grant for her project House Opera | Opera House, [2] and she was awarded a second Graham Foundation grant in 2016 for Methexis: The Algorithmic Recitative, a collaboration with Farzin Lotfi-Jam which was exhibited at MOCAD in Detroit. [3] McEwen received a 2015 award from the Knight Foundation for her continued work on community housing in Detroit. [12]

In 2016, McEwen's A(n) Office was selected as one of twelve architecture practices included in the United States Pavilion for the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. [13]

She was named curator of the New Museum's IDEAS city initiative in 2018. [14]

In February 2021, her work was included in the MoMA exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, [15] the museum's first architecture exhibition highlighting the synthesis between architecture and African-American cultures and communities. [16] In a New York Times interview with this "new collective of Black architects and artists", fellow exhibition artist Emanuel Admassu said the group is working to "reclaim the larger, civic promise of architecture". [17] McEwen was also interviewed by architectural magazine Dezeen for an article titled Twenty-two women architects and designers you should know. [18]

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  2. 1 2 "Dawn Lundy Martin, V. Mitch McEwen & Sienna Shields". Graham Foundation. 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Methexis: The Algorithmic Recitative". Graham Foundation. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  4. ↑ Bordonaro, Agatha (12 February 2020). "Imagining the Changing Shape of Architecture". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton University. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. ↑ "V. Mitch McEwen: COVID-19 and White Supremacy are Dual Pandemics". SURFACE. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  6. 1 2 "V. Mitch McEwen". Princeton University School of Architecture. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "How Atelier Office Is Upending the Architectural Paradigm". Metropolis. 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  8. ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: V. Mitch McEwen on the lost futures of reconstruction". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  9. 1 2 "V. Mitch McEwen*". Van Alen Institute. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  10. ↑ "Constructing Practice: McEwen Studio". Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "V. Mitch McEwen". AIA New York. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  12. ↑ "When a house is an opera: Creating spaces for art in Detroit". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  13. ↑ "USA Pavilion's Speculative Projects For Detroit -The Architectural Imagination At The Venice Biennale". World Architecture. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  14. ↑ "V. Mitch McEwen to Curate the New Museum's IdeasCity Initiative". Art & Education. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  15. ↑ "Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  16. ↑ "V. Mitch McEwen. White supremacy in architecture". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  17. ↑ Kimmelman, Michael (2021-03-11). "How Can Blackness Construct America?". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  18. ↑ "Twenty-two women architects and designers you should know". Dezeen. 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
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