Cait McCarthy

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, Cornell University, 2020
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Northeastern University, 2015

Cait McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture.

Through her research, teaching, and practice, McCarthy explores the ability of novel analog, digital, and material methods to simultaneously illuminate contemporary challenges and provide unexpected experiences.

McCarthy is co-founder of office office, an award-winning design-research practice which develops multi-scalar projects that seek to defamiliarize everyday objects, materials and spaces. Through research, drawings, exhibitions, and installations, the practice reimagines conventional methods of architectural production to find novel approaches to design. Prior to founding office office, she practiced at firms including OMA (New York City), Neil M. Denari Architects (Los Angeles), and KPF (New York City).

She earned a Master of Architecture from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Northeastern University. She is the recipient of the Richmond Harold Shreve Thesis Award, Eschweiler Prize, Helen Fagan Tyler Graduate Fellowship, and Mellon Urbanism Fellowship. Prior to Auburn, McCarthy taught at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning.