Catherine Venart

Research / Practice Interests

A licensed architect and urban designer in Germany, Catherine Venart founded iip, an international platform of trans-disciplinary collaboration, participating in various scaled projects/competitions that analyze and respond to the specifics of context. Her research focuses on documenting, analyzing, and representing our relationship to the environment. Her current focus is on change and how culture intersects territorial ecosystems/watersheds, uncovering/layering spatial temporal dimensions in order to renegotiate the singular specificities of architectures, infrastructures, and urbanizations.

Selected Publications

• Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2019. "Topologies of In-Between Territories." In Vorkurs (University of Florida), no. 3: Echoes, 54.
• Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2018. "Cities on the Sea: The Delta: A Crisis of Limits." Conference paper, ACSA international conference, Madrid.
• Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2018. "Tethering Landscape: Transformations of Reality: Constructing Representations and Landscapes in the Dutch Delta." Conference paper, PPADD, American University of Sharjah.
• Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2014. "Art Block." In Diane Lewis: Open City: An Existential Approach, edited by Diane Lewis and Daniel Meridor. Milan: Charta.
• Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2014. "Ecology as a Framework for a Design Methodology." Conference paper, ACSA international conference, Seoul.
• Selected Projects
• First prize. 2017. Social housing competition, Damiensweg, Köln, Germany. Site and urban analysis, design strategy, and facade consultant for Molestina Architekten.
• First prize. 2017. Social housing competition, Duisburg Neudorf, Germany. Urban design consultant for Molestina Architekten.
• Second prize. 2016. Housing, Nordbahntasse, Wupperthal, Germany. Urban design consultant for Molestina Architekten.
• Second prize. 2016. Housing, Bukenhof, Germany. Urban design and sustainable consultant (water, sunlight, energy) for Molestina Architekten.
• First prize. 2014. Social housing competition, Köln-Sulz, Germany.
• Site and urban analysis, design strategy, and facade consultant for Molestina Architekten.

Education

• M.Arch SCI-Arc (1990 — 1994)
• Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Toronto
• Cert.Eng. Mount Allison University (1980 — 1984)

Companies

• Visiting Researcher TU Delft Facultie of Architecture (2016)
• Principal iip-international idea pool for architecture and urban design (2004)
• Professor Dalhousie University (2002)
• Catherine Venart Architekten Exhibition in Vienna (2012 — 2012)
• Collaborator Werner Sobeck (2009 — 2010)
• Visiting Professor North Eastern University Architecture (2009 — 2009)
• Visiting Critic Harvard GSD (2009 — 2009)
• Guest Professor dia Bauhaus Dessau Germany (2000 — 2001)
• Teaching Assistant SCI.ARCH (1990 — 1994)

Skills

• Leadership
• Project Planning
• SketchUp

Other

Comprehensive Planning, Sustainability, Higher Education, Interior Design, Teaching, Research, Sustainable Design, Architectural Design, Design Research, Architecture, Urban Design