Please join us at UO Portland on Wednesday, October 15 at 5:30pm for a talk from Katie Bennett, a Director at Thomas Phifer and Partners, New York. This is a public event in the Fall 2025 School of Architecture & Environment Lecture Series.

Description: Thomas Phifer and Partners approaches modernism from a humanistic standpoint, connecting the built environment to the natural world. The North Carolina Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the design of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw all seek to make innovative use of technology to create architecture that connects people with light and nature.

Katie Bennett is a Director at Thomas Phifer and Partners and has been a leader in the design and detailing of the firm’s museum, university, and institutional projects since 2005. She was responsible for the design and management the recently completed Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland and is currently involved with the façade design of adjacent TR Warszawa Theatre. She served as project architect on the Corning Museum of Glass, and was responsible for the façade detailing at the Lee Hall School of Architecture at Clemson University and the gallery and enclosure systems at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Prior to joining Thomas Phifer and Partners, Katie worked on a broad array of different programmatic typologies in the US and internationally at Kohn Pederson Fox Associates in London and Architecture Research Office in New York City. She interned in the summers as a student for Marlon Blackwell and in the office of Fay Jones in her hometown state of Arkansas.

Katie holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University including studies completed at RSA Paris. She was the William Ward Watkin Fellow in 2001 and is a registered architect in the state of New York.

She has been an architectural critic at Auburn University, the University of Arkansas, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Rice University in Paris, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.