PLASTIC PRACTICE



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Exhibitions

Identity Crisis
In the Round, On the Flat
Aesthetics of Prosthetics

Symposia
Sightlines

Projects
Learning on the Line
Playwood
New Museum Addition
Hyperloop Headquarters
Seeing Double
Yield Tables

Publications
Association

Mixed Mannerisms / Identity Crisis Books

Teaching I (Select Seminar Courses)

The Back Wall
Mixed Mannerisms
Translating Elements

Teaching II (Select Studio Courses)
Hybrid Assemblages II
Geologies of Making
Hybrid Assemblages I
Traces of Extraction
Istanbul Mediatheque
A Chair, A House, A Signature

Info
About

Contact
Courses
Events
A Note
                                   PLASTIC PRACTICE


PLASTIC is an architecture, research, and academic practice by Cat Wilmes.

Nominally drawing from the plastic arts, its name reflects an understanding of architecture as a discipline engaged in the shaping of material, spatial, and visual form.

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Events


2025


SIGHTLINES: Architecture, Photography, and the Mutability of the Image
(symposium)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Nave (3rd Floor), E. Sibley Hall

Curated by Cat Wilmes, SIGHTLINES brings together architects, artists, and photographers—James Casebere, David Hartt, Karel Klein, and Olivia Vien.



Pratt Alumni Flashtalks
(lecture)
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Higgins Auditorium, Higgins Hall

This event features alumni from various sectors of the architecture profession, sharing their diverse experiences and journeys.



2024



The Back Wall
(exhibition)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall

This exhibition showcases 18 student projects from the fall 2024 seminar The Back Wall (ARCH 3308/4509/6308/6509) taught by Department of Architecture Design Teaching Fellow Catherine Wilmes.



Architecture Fellows Lecture
(lecture)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Lecture by Architecture Fellows, Sydney Maubert, Imani Day, Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán, Il Hwan Kim, and Catherine Wilmes for a lecture and panel discussion about their experience and work.



Identity Crisis
(exhibition)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall

Identity Crisis explores new approaches to architectural elements by surveying Ithaca's built environment and proposing a series of eight artifacts derived from photographic documentation.



2023


Mixed Mannerisms (exhibition)
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall

The student projects featured in this exhibition are from Design Teaching Fellow Catherine Wilmes' Fall 2023 seminar (ARCH 3308/4509/6308/6509).



Mixed Mannerisms
(book)
A student exhibition book.

Softcover, 112 pages, ISBN 9798881426323, English



2022



In the Round, On the Flat
(exhibition)
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Siegal Gallery, Higgins Hall

An exhibition of architectural models in the age of the digital image.



2019


Aesthetics of Prosthetics (exhibition)
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Siegal Gallery, Higgins Hall

A collaborative exhibition on the relationship between digital ways of working and their impact on architectural aesthetics in the twenty-first century.