2024-11-21T14:55:15-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150245822/la-s-materials-applications-announce-kate-yeh-chiu-as-new-executive-director Sean Joyner 2021-01-19T14:18:00-05:00 >2021-01-20T13:58:52-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c9/c99b51761edfcff96bfc41c53f910069.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/materialsandapplications" target="_blank">Materials &amp; Applications</a> (M&amp;A) has <a href="https://www.materialsandapplications.org/events/newdirector" target="_blank">announced</a> <a href="https://archinect.com/xkyc" target="_blank">Kate Yeh Chiu</a> as its new Executive Director, effective January 1, 2021. Kate is a designer, editor, and arts organizer, joining M&amp;A from the <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/46248430/canadian-centre-for-architecture-cca" target="_blank">Canadian Centre for Architecture</a>, where she holds the position of Digital Editor through March 2021.</p> <p>Kate has worked as an Education Fellow at Triple Canopy, a Grants Fellow at the Graham Foundation, an editor of&nbsp;<em><a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150059581/redlines-pidgin" target="_blank">Pidgin</a>,</em> in addition to positions with <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/31065/stan-allen-architect" target="_blank">Stan Allen Architect</a> and <a href="https://archinect.com/LOHA" target="_blank">Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects</a>.</p> <p>According to M&amp;A, her personal projects "address material flows and labor conditions at the peripheries of architectural production, and she is half of the collaborative project yyyy-mm-dd with Fran&ccedil;ois Sabourin." She holds an M.Arch from <a href="https://archinect.com/princetonsoa" target="_blank">Princeton University</a> and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/4069531/the-university-of-chicago" target="_blank">University of Chicago</a>.</p>