Kathy Velikov

Kathy Velikov is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Vice-President of ACADIA. She is a licensed architect and founding partner of the practice RVTR, which serves as a platform for exploration and experimentation in the intertwinements between architecture, the environment, technology, and sociopolitics. Her work ranges from prototypes that explore architectural skins which mediate...See more

Kathy Velikov is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Vice-President of ACADIA. She is a licensed architect and founding partner of the practice RVTR, which serves as a platform for exploration and experimentation in the intertwinements between architecture, the environment, technology, and sociopolitics. Her work ranges from prototypes that explore architectural skins which mediate matter, energy, information, space, and atmosphere between bodies and environments, to the investigation of urban infrastructures and territorial practices, using mapping and analysis, speculative design propositions, physical prototyping, exhibitions, and writing. Kathy is a recipient of the Architectural League's Young Architects Award, the Canadian Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture, and co-author of the book Infra Eco Logi Urbanism (Park Books, 2015). Her work has been awarded and exhibited internationally, and her writing has been published in edited books and journals. See less