Lecturer
Greene Building, Room 304

518-276-4066

Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado

Caleb White is an Architectural Designer and Educator based in New York. He is a Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture. He is also a co-founding partner of MatterLab – a multidisciplinary design office based in Troy, New York. MaterLab seeks new territory for architectural practice through small cultural and residential projects which call for unusual or nuanced design solutions. He received his Master of Architecture from the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded the Faculty Prize, the James Smyth Warner Memorial Prize, the AIA Pennsylvania Student Award, and the E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado.

Within Caleb’s work, he seeks to transcend the digital fingerprint of contemporary design methods while also mining emerging technologies for new practices of making. This dialogue, between emerging methodologies and disciplinarily rooted traditions, is the foundation for his design research. His multi-faceted work tends to interrogate the rigorous generation of geometry and form with its material realization. These are themes that he has explored through both his professional work and his pedagogical practice.

Caleb was previously an Associate at the New York and Shanghai based firm Contemporary Architecture Practice working with Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle. His notable projects include Lijia Smart Park in Chongqing, AMEC headquarters in Nanchang, and NJCTTQ headquarters in Nanjing, among others. He has also worked and collaborated with offices such as Present Architecture in NYC, Ewing Cole in Philadelphia, and bldg. collective in Boulder Colorado.