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School of Architecture

Faculty of Architecture and Planning

Catherine Ann Somerville Venart

Associate Professor

Catherine Ann Somerville Venart

School of Architecture

Email: cvenart@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1593
Fax: 902-423-6672
Mailing Address: 
5410 Spring Garden Road
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • urban design (history, theory, analysis)
  • public space
  • architecture, infrastructure, and landscape
  • perception
  • representation and design methodology

Education

  • Cert. Eng., Mount Allison University
  • BFA, University of Toronto
  • MArch, Southern California Institute of Architecture

Current Teaching (2024鈥�25)

  • ARCH 4005: B5 Design
  • ARCH 5004: Urban Systems Studio
  • ARCH 5117: Built and Natural Environments
  • ARCH 9014: MArch Thesis 1
  • ARCH 9015: MArch Thesis 2

Research / Practice Interests

A licensed architect and urban designer in Germany, Catherine Venart founded iip, an international platform of trans-disciplinary collaboration, participating in various scaled projects/competitions that analyze and respond to the specifics of context. Her research focuses on documenting, analyzing, and representing our relationship to the environment. Her current focus is on change and how culture intersects territorial ecosystems/watersheds, uncovering/layering spatial temporal dimensions in order to renegotiate the singular specificities of architectures, infrastructures, and urbanizations.

Selected Publications

  • Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2019. "Topologies of In-Between Territories." In Vorkurs (University of Florida), no. 3: Echoes, 54.
  • Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2018. "Cities on the Sea: The Delta: A Crisis of Limits." Conference paper, ACSA international conference, Madrid.
  • Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2018. "Tethering Landscape: Transformations of Reality: Constructing Representations and Landscapes in the Dutch Delta." Conference paper, PPADD, American University of Sharjah.
  • Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2014. "Art Block." In Diane Lewis: Open City: An Existential Approach, edited by Diane Lewis and Daniel Meridor. Milan: Charta.
  • Venart, Catherine Ann Somerville. 2014. "Ecology as a Framework for a Design Methodology." Conference paper, ACSA international conference, Seoul.

Selected Projects

  • First prize. 2017. Social housing competition, Damiensweg, K枚ln, Germany. Site and urban analysis, design strategy, and facade consultant for Molestina Architekten.
  • First prize. 2017. Social housing competition, Duisburg Neudorf, Germany. Urban design consultant for Molestina Architekten.
  • Second prize. 2016. Housing, Nordbahntasse, Wupperthal, Germany. Urban design consultant for Molestina Architekten.
  • Second prize. 2016. Housing, Bukenhof, Germany. Urban design and sustainable consultant (water, sunlight, energy) for Molestina Architekten.
  • First prize. 2014. Social housing competition, K枚ln-Sulz, Germany.
    Site and urban analysis, design strategy, and facade consultant for Molestina Architekten.

Scholarly or Professional Memberships

  • Registered architect, Germany