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Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer
Character
This week is a conversation with Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer of Design with Company and we’re ‘talking about the idea of architecture and character.
Throughout the episode you’ll hear discussion about how architecture can be thought to have character and what that might mean and why that might be of importance when thinking about the design phase of works.
As a point of departure, we’re talking about an edited volume that Stewart and Allison edited called Character. This ‘Character’ issue comes from MAS Context which is a platform founded by Iker Gil in Chicago. This is a platform that produces not only a series of publications but also events and a range of discourse within design. If you are not familiar with the work Iker Gil does with Mas Context, it is definitely worth your time to have a look.
As you might figure out during the course of this conversation, Stewart, Allison and myself are good friends so it was great speaking with them!
Stewart Hicks
Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads design studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts. He is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. is co-founders of Design With Company, who’s work is interested in concepts that are shared between architecture and literature, including: narrative fictions, type, and character. Hicks also hosts YouTube channel ‘Architecture w/ Stewart’.
Allison Newmeyer
Allison is co-founders of Design With Company who’s work is interested in concepts that are shared between architecture and literature, including: narrative fictions, type, and character. She has lectured at institutions like MoMA in New York, the Vancouver Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Graham Foundation, and universities across the country and abroad.
