Time and Place

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building Commons

Workshop No.01” with Olalekan Jeyifous, designer, illustrator, visual artist, Vigilism, Brooklyn, NY; Catie Newell, founding principal, *Alibi Studio, and Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Jeyifous and Newell are 2017 Urban Edge Award recipients in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Lecture Summary

Olalekan Jeyifous presents “Speculating Urban Futures: Imminence and Immanence.” Catie Newell presents “This Time.”
The theme of the 2017 Urban Edge Award is FROM WASTE TO WONDER: Working with What Remains.

Bio

Jeyifous is a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and designer. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Cornell University where his focus of study was primarily on investigating the relevant potential for a variety of computer software within the fields of art, design and architecture. After graduating he enjoyed a 4 year tenure as a senior designer at the inimitable dbox before continuing on to pursue his creative compulsions full-time. Since then he has been fortunate enough to exhibit his artwork in venues throughout the world as well as create beautiful illustrations for a variety of amazing clients.

Bio

Catie Newell is the founding principal of the art and architecture practice *Alibi Studio and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. She has a Masters of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Tech. Newell is a licensed architect. In 2006 she won the SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design with her project Weather Permitting. Before joining the University of Michigan as the Oberdick Fellow in 2009, Newell was a project designer at Office dA in Boston. Newell’s work and research captures spaces and material effects, focusing on the development of atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light or lack thereof. Newell’s creative practice has been widely recognized for exploring design construction and materiality in relationship to location and geography, and cultural contingencies. Newell won the 2011 ArtPrize Best Use of Urban Space Juried Award and the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers. Newell recently exhibited at the 2012 Architecture Venice Biennale and the 2015 Lille3000 Triennial. Catie won the 2013-2014 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Architecture and she is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

The Urban Edge Workshop is part of a series of events of SARUP’s prestigious Urban Edge Award 2017 supported by the Wisconsin Preservation Fund and the law firm of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren to recognize excellence in urban design and the ability of individuals to create major, positive change within the public realm.

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All workshops are free and open to the public.
Additional information about the lectures and exhibitions can be found by contacting the main reception at (414) 229-4014, and by emailing any inquiries to Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard.