Cathryn Dwyre
Adjunct Professor
CASE
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Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Arts, Colgate University
Cathryn Dwyre is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture where she teaches an interdisciplinary elective seminar titled Geo-Actors. Additionally, Cathryn is Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture where she teaches undergraduate thesis in the Bachelor of Architecture program and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group Inclusive Ecologies, which brings together faculty from various schools and departments to develop projects and grant proposals that explore the intersection of landscape, ecology, and public space.
Cathryn received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and geology from Colgate University where she was director of the Creative Arts House.
Cathryn was managing editor of ViaBooks and its volume Dirt published by MIT Press. Currently, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Basilica Arts, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts center in Hudson, New York, where Cathryn sits on several committees and has been active in various initiatives, including the development of a new green energy grid for the Basilica campus. Cathryn is also a member of the Board of Directors of imby, a local social network and virtual community serving the Hudson Valley. Additionally, Cathryn provides consulting services to startup teams and has served as a Responsible Leader (an invited position) of the BMW Foundation since 2001.
In 2011, Cathryn co-founded pneumastudio with Chris Perry. An art, design, and research practice situated between architecture and landscape, pneumastudio’s art and design work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Design Museum of Barcelona, and the Gallatin Galleries in New York. Publishers that have featured pneumastudio’s art and design work include Routledge, Actar, Prestel, and Wiley-Academy.
pneumastudio’s research work takes the form of curatorial and editorial projects. Examples of the former include the exhibition and symposium Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural which brings together over sixty works of art, architecture, landscape architecture, and scholarship. Examples of the latter include a book that features the content of the Ambiguous Territory exhibition and symposium published by Actar Publishers with a launch event at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York, as well as a special section of PAJ: A Journal of Performance Art published by MIT Press titled Performance and Architecture.
Additionally, pneumastudio conducts research through travel fellowships and artist residencies, the latter of which include MacDowell in New Hampshire, Château de Monthelon in Burgundy, and the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico.
Prior to her design and academic career, Cathryn spent over ten years in leadership of technology startup companies. She was the V.P. of Corporate Development at GridApp Systems, where Cathryn also served as the Secretary to the Board of Directors and member of the Compensation Committee. Prior to GridApp Systems, Cathryn was a key member of management in the startup Register.com. Prior to this work, Cathryn bought and sold rare books at Ursus Rare Books and also worked for the USGS (United States Geological Survey) doing field data collection for structural geologic mappings of the North Cascades in Washington.
