Education

M.Arch, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.F.A. in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art

Biography

Christopher McCarthy is an Architectural Designer at Lineweight Studio. His professional work is heavily rooted in adaptive reuse and contextually sensitive urban infill. Christopher’s role at Lineweight involves all customary concerns of designing across scales and programmatic types while balancing a long view toward adapting the practice of architecture to retain agency amidst the turbulent landscape of digitally mediated creative work.

His work is informed by a background in art and commercial fabrication. His research and ongoing studio practice has supplanted over a decade of painting with a focus on clay as a locus of investigation for the collision of contemporary and ancient syntactical tools and expressions. Similarly, his work in architecture and the pedagogical tail of these interests heavily investigates the yields of procedural design and elective systems in a design process while conversely scrutinizing the issue tooling and methodology play in governing design or vice versa. As an educator, Christopher's perspective is as informed by his investment in the techniques of novel, digitally based processes as he is by his passion for art and architectural history and theory.