Material Conversations: A Focus on Glass
| When | Wednesday, January 28, 2026 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Where | Materials Collection Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, Second Floor View floor plan |
| Event type | Presentation |
| Series | Material Conversations |
Catie Newell, professor of architecture at Taubman College and founding principal of Alibi Studio, will speak about her work exploring the illuminative qualities of glass through form, color, and transparency demonstrated through site-specific works and material research.
Newell's most recent work explores glass as a building unit that both transforms and modulates light. Light Forms are "cast glass modules that work architecturally, allowing light to transfer through them, aggregating together several different tessellations to make spaces with different textures and optical qualities."
You will soon see Light Forms in action, in "Inhabiting Light" at Magnolia Glade in Nichols Arboretum.
"Light form" glass block in green and blue.
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Rebecca Mary Price · rpw@umich.edu
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