Cathy Simon
Cathy Simon is an American architect. She is known for her adaptive reuse and urban design projects, many of which are in the Bay area. She is currently a design principal at Perkins and Will.
Cathy Simon
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- Name
- Cathy Simon
- Occupation
- Architect
- Education
- * Wellesley College
- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- United States
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Cathy Simon is an American architect. She is known for her adaptive reuse and urban design projects, many of which are in the Bay area. She is currently a design principal at Perkins and Will.
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Cathy Simon (born 1950) is an American architect. The architect studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Wellesley College.
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She was one of five founding partners of the influential female-owned firm SMWM (Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris), based in San Francisco. She and Martin-Vengue have spent more than 18 years "building one of the nation's largest women-owned firms." She has worked on major projects including the conversion of the San Francisco Ferry building, the San Francisco Main Library, the renovation of PG&E's San Francisco headquarters, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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Key facts
• Name — Cathy Simon • Occupation — Architect • Education — * Wellesley College • Harvard Graduate School of Design
Significant projects
Significant projects
• Conservations and restoration of the San Francisco Ferry Building (SMWM) • San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SMWM) • San Francisco Main Library (SMWM and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners) • Hearst Memorial Gym at University of California Berkeley (SMWM) • Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant (SMWM) • The Metreon, an entertainment and shopping complex in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens (SMWM and Handel Architects) • Master plans for Stanford, Harvard, Brown, and NYU (SMWM) • Heinz and Lilo Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM) • Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM and Wank Adams Slavin) • Marin Academy Performing Art Center and Field House, San Rafael, California (SMWM) • 140 New Montgomery (Perkins + Will) • Primate Discovery Center, San Francisco Zoo (Marquis Associates)
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Education
Simon is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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Awards
• American Institute of Steel Construction Award of Excellence of the Primate Discovery Center, 1985 • Excellence in Design Award / Restoration & Rehabilitation for the San Francisco Ferry Building, American Institute of Architect's San Francisco Design Awards, 2004 • EDRA/Places Award for Design for the San Francisco Ferry Building, 2007
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- 1.ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research). www.getty.edu.
- 2.Cathy Simon - Rudy Bruner Award. Rudy Bruner Award.
- 3.How Everyone Can Promote Equity in Architecture. Architect. 2014-10-29.
- 4.Pressman, Andy. Curing the Fountainheadache: How Architects & Their Clients Communicate. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. 2006-01-01. 9781402726040.
- 5.CED Exhibition: SMWM exhibit at the Environmental Design Archives Wednesday, 06/04/14 – 10/01/14 280 Wurster Hall.
- 6.Cathy Simon and Phyllis Martin-Vengue the Pioneers. Contract. 45. 3. 72. March 2003.
- 7.Prominent Women-Owned Architecture Firm Joins Forces with Perkins+Will Business Wire. www.businesswire.com.
- 8.Muschamp, Herbert. Architecture View: Room for Imagination in a Temple of Reason. The New York Times. May 12, 1996.
- 9.Ecological control: Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, San Francisco, California Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, architect. Architecture. 83. 8. 0746-0554.
- 10.Lost in space: has Sony miscalculated by adding urban malls to its product line?. Metropolis. 19. 3. 1999. 0279-4977.
- 11.N.Y.U. picks team to devise long-range growth plan. thevillager.com.
- 12.Yee, Roger. Educational Environments. Visual Reference Publications. 2002-01-01. 9781584710615.
- 13.Goldberger, Paul. Architecture View: Fitting In on Campus at Princeton and Bard. The New York Times. February 28, 1988.
- 14.Madrigal, Alexis C. A 26-Story History of San Francisco. The Atlantic.
- 15.Monkeys ecstatic over their move to new quarters. SFGate.
- 16.Bay Area Projects Among Winners. Los Angeles Times. 1985-10-20. 0458-3035.
- 17.AIA Awards / The Best of the Bay / 2004's American Institute of Architects' San Francisco Design Awards. SFGate.
- 18.The Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA: SMWM, Baldauf Catton Eckartsberg, Page & Turnbull. Places. 19. 3. 6–11. 0731-0455.
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