Molly Reichert

Molly Reichert believes in the transformative power of design as a tool to empower communities and enable movements. For over fifteen years, Molly has established herself as a designer, artist, and an educator whose passion for transdisciplinary collaboration and craft fuels her approach to design and education.

Molly’s dedication to research and experimentation has resulted in a practice that incorporates architecture, art, design, and urbanism to shape and enrich generative gathering spaces. Currently a partner in the design collective Futures North, Molly has worked on highly-acclaimed large scale public art projects designed to convey complex data through aesthetic visualization and interactive experience.

Fusing digital design and fabrication with a commitment to a community-engaged process, Molly’s ability to take a project from the conceptual to the physical has inspired her work with an unconventional group of collaborators, made up of artists, activists, farmers, scientists, and arctic explorers. Having gotten her start in Brooklyn with MADE design+build, Molly quickly learned her way around both the building site and the fabrication shop, giving her deeper understanding of projects through the builder’s lens. Since then, she has gone on to develop unique partnerships with a broad spectrum of changemakers, including Will Steger, Marcin Jakubowski, and Rael San Fratello.

Molly is a founding faculty member of the professional Architecture degree program at Dunwoody College of Technology. Her teaching combines digital design & fabrication with interdisciplinary critical design thinking. She previously taught in the architecture departments of UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. Molly holds a B.A. from Smith College and a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley.

AWARDS:

• Crosby Fellowship- Diverse Perspectives in the Classroom Initiative 2020
• Public Art Network Year in Review for Phase Change with Futures North. 2017
• Outstanding Innovation in Teaching Award, Dunwoody College of Technology. 2017
• Crosby Fellowship- Barcelona Program 2017
• 3M Art and Technology Award at Mia with Ben Arcand. 2016
• SXSW Eco | Place By Design | Art and Interaction Award with Futures North. 2016
• AIA Home of the Year Award with PK Architecture, AIA Minnesota. 2016
• Outstanding Design Award for Little Box Sauna with MRAJ, College of Design, University of Minnesota. 2015
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, School of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley. 2009

Education

• MArch University of California, Berkeley (2006 — 2010)
• BA Smith College (2000 — 2004)

Companies

• Associate Professor Dunwoody College of Technology (2020)
• Principal, Founder Reichert LLC (2015)
• Partner Futures North L.L.C. (2012)
• Assistant Professor Dunwoody College of Technology | Department of Architecture (2016 — 2020)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Minnesota College of Design (2011 — 2016)
• Designer Coen and Partners (2011 — 2012)
• Lecturer San Jose State University (2010 — 2010)
• Graduate Student Instuctor University of California, Berkeley (2007 — 2010)
• Design Intern Rael San Fratello Architects (2009 — 2009)