Caroline O'Donnell is a designer who works from the scale of the city to the scale of furniture, questioning what we think we should do with things and how we can manipulate both the things and how we think about them. While at MacDowell, she was interested in what we think we should do with chairs. Her practice, CODA, won the Young Architect's prize at MoMA PS1 in 2013 and her book, Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site, was published in 2015. She is the director of the master's of architecture program at Cornell University.
Disciplines:
Architecture – design
Caroline O'Donnell
Studios
Alexander
Caroline O'Donnell worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…