ABOUT MOLLY

MOLLY REICHERT
Partner, Futures North
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Dunwoody College of Technology
Minneapolis, MN

Molly Reichert believes in the transformative power of design as a tool to empower communities and enable movements. For over fifteen years, Molly has established herself as a designer, artist, and an educator whose passion for transdisciplinary collaboration and craft fuels her approach to design and education.

Molly’s dedication to research and experimentation has resulted in a practice that incorporates architecture, art, design, and urbanism to shape and enrich generative gathering spaces. Currently a partner in the design collective Futures North, Molly has worked on highly-acclaimed large scale public art projects designed to convey complex data through aesthetic visualization and interactive experience.

Fusing digital design and fabrication with a commitment to a community-engaged process, Molly’s ability to take a project from the conceptual to the physical has inspired her work with an unconventional group of collaborators, made up of artists, activists, farmers, scientists, and arctic explorers. Having gotten her start in Brooklyn with MADE design+build, Molly quickly learned her way around both the building site and the fabrication shop, giving her deeper understanding of projects through the builder’s lens. Since then, she has gone on to develop unique partnerships with a broad spectrum of changemakers, including Will Steger, Marcin Jakubowski, and Rael San Fratello.

Molly is a founding faculty member of the professional Architecture degree program at Dunwoody College of Technology. Her teaching combines digital design & fabrication with interdisciplinary critical design thinking. She previously taught in the architecture departments of UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota. Molly holds a B.A. from Smith College and a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley. 

AWARDS:
Crosby Fellowship- Diverse Perspectives in the Classroom Initiative 2020
Public Art Network Year in Review for Phase Change with Futures North. 2017
Outstanding Innovation in Teaching Award, Dunwoody College of Technology. 2017
Crosby Fellowship- Barcelona Program 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:
Minneapolis 2040 Studio 2019 | Bachelor of Architecture Studio | Dunwoody College of Technology
Barcelona Program 2018 | Bachelor of Architecture Studio | Dunwoody College of Technology
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