ABOUT MOLLY

Molly Reichert is an architectural researcher, designer and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. Her work integrates the disciplines of architecture, art, design, urbanism into the construction of new social spaces. Her ability to take a project from conceptual design to digital model to fabrication in physical form has allowed her to work with an unconventional set of collaborators, ranging from farmers to scientists to engineers to environmental activists.

Molly is a founding faculty member of the professional Architecture degree program at Dunwoody College of Technology. Her teaching combines cutting-edge digital design & fabrication with interdisciplinary critical design thinking. Molly has collaborated with ceramicist Kimberly Roth in her course Digital Ceramics, engineer Marcin Jakubowski in her course FarmTECH, and arctic explorer and environmentalist Will Steger in her course Dining Wild. She previously taught in the architecture departments of UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota.

As a partner in the design collective Futures North, Molly has worked on highly–acclaimed public art projects designed to convey complex data through aesthetic visualization and interactive experience, including Phase Change, a data spatialization of our changing climate and Meander a data spatialization of the Mississippi River. A drive to create social space during the long winters of Minneapolis led to a multi-year experiment promoting the health and community-building aspects of public sauna culture in Minneapolis through mobile sauna projects, Tono Sauna and Little Box Sauna.

OTHER THINGS ABOUT MOLLY

• Molly has climbed 31 mountains above 14,000 feet in Colorado and Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.  
• Molly has spent six weeks living in the arctic, traveling along the Hood River to Bathurst Bay Canada.
• Molly loves to sing and was a member of the Smiffenpoofs: the oldest female collegiate a cappella group in the nation.
• Molly bakes bread and throws great collaborative dinner parties at an unusual house between 2 lakes.
• Molly was the champion of the Flex Arm Hang in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade

EDUCATION:
SMITH COLLEGE Bachelor of Arts: Architecture, Urbanism, and Spanish | 2000-2004
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, Master or Architecure | 2006-2010

WORK:
Dunwoody College of Technology, Department of Architecture, Senior Instructor | 2016 - Present
Reichert LLC, Minneapolis MN, Director | 2014-Present http://www.mollyreichert.com/
Rebar Art and Design Group, San Francisco CA, Frogtown Farm Design Project Manager | 2013-2014 http://rebargroup.org/
Futures North, Minneapolis MN, Partner | 2013-Present http://www.futures-north.com/
University of Minnesota: College of Design, Minneapolis MN, Adjunct Assistant Professor | 2012-2015
Coen+Partners, Minneapolis MN, Designer | 2011-2012 http://www.coenpartners.com/
San Jose State University, Department of Interior Architecture, San Jose CA, Adjunct Assistant Professor | 2010-2011
Rael San Fratello, Oakland CA, Design Intern,  http://www.rael-sanfratello.com/ | 2010-2011
UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, Graduate Student Instructor | 2007-2010
MADE LLC, Brooklyn NY, Site Assistant, http://www.made-nyc.com/ | 2004-2005

AWARDS:
Public Art Network Year in Review for Phase Change with Futures North. 2017
Outstanding Innovation in Teaching Award, Dunwoody College of Technology. 2017
Dunwoody Crosby Fellowship. 2017
3M Art and Technology Award at Mia with Ben Arcand. 2016
SXSW Eco | Place By Design | Art and Interaction Award with Futures North. 2016
AIA Home of the Year Award with PK Architecture, AIA Minnesota. 2016
Outstanding Design Award for Little Box Sauna with MRAJ, College of Design, University of Minnesota. 2015
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, School of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley. 2009

PROJECT BLOGS:
Divining Rods
Phase Change
Meander
Little Box Sauna
Frogtown Farm
TonoSauna
Bauprozess
RayGun Gothic Rocket Ship 

CLASSES TAUGHT:
Digital Ceramics 2017 | Bachelor of Architecture Studio | Dunwoody College of Technology
Public Interest Design 2017 | Bachelor of Architecture Seminar | Dunwoody College of Technology
Dining Wild | 2016 Architecture Studio | Dunwoody College of Technology
FarmTECH | 2014 Bachelor of Design in Architecture Workshop | University of Minnesota
Digital Ceramics 2014 | 2014 Bachelor of Design in Architecture Workshop | University of Minnesota
Digital Representation & Fabrication | Bachelor of Science in Architecture Seminar | University of Minnesota

COLLABORATIVES:
Futures North
MinnLab
Five Ton Crane

MOLLY REICHERT, Associate AIA
Architectural Researcher,
Designer, & Educator