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Cathy Simon

{{short description|American architect}}

Cathy Simon is an American architect.{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=simon,+cathy&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500112503|title=ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)|website=www.getty.edu|access-date=2016-10-22}} She is known for her adaptive reuse and urban design projects, many of which are in the Bay area.{{Cite news|url=http://www.rudybruneraward.org/committee-members/cathy-simon/|title=Cathy Simon - Rudy Bruner Award|newspaper=Rudy Bruner Award|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-22}} She is currently{{as of?|date=October 2023}} a design principal at Perkins and Will.{{Cite news|url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/business/how-everyone-can-promote-equity-in-architecture_o|title=How Everyone Can Promote Equity in Architecture|date=2014-10-29|newspaper=Architect|access-date=2016-10-22}} She was one of five founding partners of the influential female-owned firm SMWM (Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris), based in San Francisco.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDBCJH1lkfcC&q=cathy%20simon%20harvard%20school%20of%20design&pg=PA114|title=Curing the Fountainheadache: How Architects & Their Clients Communicate|last=Pressman|first=Andy|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=9781402726040|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=http://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/events/smwm-exhibit-at-the-environmental-design-archives|title=CED Exhibition: SMWM exhibit at the Environmental Design Archives Wednesday, 06/04/14 – 10/01/14 280 Wurster Hall|access-date=2016-10-22|archive-date=2017-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822223020/https://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/events/smwm-exhibit-at-the-environmental-design-archives|url-status=dead}} She and Martin-Vengue have spent more than 18 years "building one of the nation's largest women-owned firms."{{Cite journal|date=March 2003|title=Cathy Simon and Phyllis Martin-Vengue the Pioneers|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9352469&site=ehost-live|journal=Contract|volume=45|issue=3|page=72|access-date=7 November 2016|via=EBSCOhost}} She has worked on major projects including the conversion of the San Francisco Ferry building, the San Francisco Main Library, the renovation of PG&E's San Francisco headquarters, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.{{Cite press release|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081017005598/en/Prominent-Women-Owned-Architecture-Firm-Joins-Forces-PerkinsWill|title=Prominent Women-Owned Architecture Firm Joins Forces with Perkins+Will {{!}} Business Wire|website=www.businesswire.com|access-date=2016-10-22}}

Significant projects

  • Conservations and restoration of the San Francisco Ferry Building (SMWM)
  • San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SMWM)
  • San Francisco Main Library (SMWM and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners){{Cite news|title=ARCHITECTURE VIEW: Room for Imagination in a Temple of Reason|last=Muschamp|first=Herbert|date=May 12, 1996|work=The New York Times|via=LexisNexis Academic}}
  • Hearst Memorial Gym at University of California Berkeley (SMWM)
  • Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant (SMWM){{Cite journal|title=Ecological control: Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant, San Francisco, California Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, architect|journal=Architecture|volume=83|issue=8|issn=0746-0554}}
  • The Metreon, an entertainment and shopping complex in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Gardens (SMWM and Handel Architects){{Cite journal|year=1999|title=Lost in space: has Sony miscalculated by adding urban malls to its product line?|journal=Metropolis|volume=19|issue=3|issn=0279-4977}}
  • Master plans for Stanford, Harvard, Brown, and NYU (SMWM){{Cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_212/nyupicksteam.html|title=N.Y.U. picks team to devise long-range growth plan|website=thevillager.com|access-date=2016-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901220008/http://thevillager.com/villager_212/nyupicksteam.html|archive-date=2013-09-01|url-status=dead}}
  • Heinz and Lilo Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9kds0NbA0UC&q=Bard+College+++smwm|title=Educational Environments|last=Yee|first=Roger|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Visual Reference Publications|isbn=9781584710615|language=en}}
  • Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (SMWM and Wank Adams Slavin){{Cite news|title=ARCHITECTURE VIEW: Fitting In on Campus at Princeton and Bard|last=GOLDBERGER|first=PAUL|date=February 28, 1988|work=The New York Times|via=Lexis Nexis Academic}}
  • Marin Academy Performing Art Center and Field House, San Rafael, California (SMWM)
  • 140 New Montgomery (Perkins + Will){{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/a-26-story-history-of-san-francisco/284467/|title=A 26-Story History of San Francisco|last=Madrigal|first=Alexis C.|newspaper=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-24}}
  • Primate Discovery Center, San Francisco Zoo (Marquis Associates){{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Monkeys-ecstatic-over-their-move-to-new-quarters-2669513.php|title=Monkeys ecstatic over their move to new quarters|newspaper=SFGate|access-date=2016-10-24}}

Awards

  • American Institute of Steel Construction Award of Excellence of the Primate Discovery Center, 1985{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-20-re-14340-story.html|title=Bay Area Projects Among Winners|date=1985-10-20|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-10-24}}
  • Excellence in Design Award / Restoration & Rehabilitation for the San Francisco Ferry Building, American Institute of Architect's San Francisco Design Awards, 2004{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/AIA-AWARDS-The-Best-of-the-Bay-2004-s-3307743.php|title=AIA AWARDS / The Best of the Bay / 2004's American Institute of Architects' San Francisco Design Awards|newspaper=SFGate|access-date=2016-10-23}}
  • EDRA/Places Award for Design for the San Francisco Ferry Building, 2007{{Cite journal|title=The Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA: SMWM, Baldauf Catton Eckartsberg, Page & Turnbull|journal=Places|volume=19|issue=3|pages=6–11|issn=0731-0455}}

Education

Simon is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

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Category:American women architects

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Category:Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni

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Category:21st-century American women