Misplaced Pages

Cathy Simon

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
American architect

Cathy Simon is an American architect. She is known for her adaptive reuse and urban design projects, many of which are in the Bay area. She is currently a design principal at Perkins and Will. She was one of five founding partners of the influential female-owned firm SMWM (Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris), based in San Francisco. She and Martin-Vengue have spent more than 18 years "building one of the nation's largest women-owned firms." She has worked on major projects including the conversion of the San Francisco Ferry building, the San Francisco Main Library, the renovation of PG&E's San Francisco headquarters, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Significant projects

  • Conservations and restoration of the San Francisco Ferry Building (SMWM)
  • San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SMWM)
  • San Francisco Main Library (SMWM and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
  • Hearst Memorial Gym at University of California Berkeley (SMWM)
  • Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant (SMWM)
  • The Metreon, an entertainment and shopping complex in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens (SMWM and Handel Architects)
  • Master plans for Stanford, Harvard, Brown, and NYU (SMWM)
  • Heinz and Lilo Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM)
  • Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM and Wank Adams Slavin)
  • Marin Academy Performing Art Center and Field House, San Rafael, California (SMWM)
  • 140 New Montgomery (Perkins + Will)
  • Primate Discovery Center, San Francisco Zoo (Marquis Associates)

Awards

  • American Institute of Steel Construction Award of Excellence of the Primate Discovery Center, 1985
  • Excellence in Design Award / Restoration & Rehabilitation for the San Francisco Ferry Building, American Institute of Architect's San Francisco Design Awards, 2004
  • EDRA/Places Award for Design for the San Francisco Ferry Building, 2007

Education

Simon is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

References

  1. "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  2. ^ "Cathy Simon - Rudy Bruner Award". Rudy Bruner Award. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  3. "How Everyone Can Promote Equity in Architecture". Architect. 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  4. Pressman, Andy (2006-01-01). Curing the Fountainheadache: How Architects & Their Clients Communicate. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 9781402726040.
  5. ^ "CED Exhibition: SMWM exhibit at the Environmental Design Archives Wednesday, 06/04/14 – 10/01/14 280 Wurster Hall". Archived from the original on 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  6. "Cathy Simon and Phyllis Martin-Vengue the Pioneers". Contract. 45 (3): 72. March 2003. Retrieved 7 November 2016 – via EBSCOhost.
  7. "Prominent Women-Owned Architecture Firm Joins Forces with Perkins+Will | Business Wire". www.businesswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  8. Muschamp, Herbert (May 12, 1996). "ARCHITECTURE VIEW: Room for Imagination in a Temple of Reason". The New York Times – via LexisNexis Academic.
  9. "Ecological control: Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, San Francisco, California Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, architect". Architecture. 83 (8). ISSN 0746-0554.
  10. "Lost in space: has Sony miscalculated by adding urban malls to its product line?". Metropolis. 19 (3). 1999. ISSN 0279-4977.
  11. "N.Y.U. picks team to devise long-range growth plan". thevillager.com. Archived from the original on 2013-09-01. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  12. ^ Yee, Roger (2002-01-01). Educational Environments. Visual Reference Publications. ISBN 9781584710615.
  13. GOLDBERGER, PAUL (February 28, 1988). "ARCHITECTURE VIEW: Fitting In on Campus at Princeton and Bard". The New York Times – via Lexis Nexis Academic.
  14. Madrigal, Alexis C. "A 26-Story History of San Francisco". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
  15. "Monkeys ecstatic over their move to new quarters". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
  16. "Bay Area Projects Among Winners". Los Angeles Times. 1985-10-20. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
  17. "AIA AWARDS / The Best of the Bay / 2004's American Institute of Architects' San Francisco Design Awards". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
  18. "The Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA: SMWM, Baldauf Catton Eckartsberg, Page & Turnbull". Places. 19 (3): 6–11. ISSN 0731-0455.
Categories: