ABOUT
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Rachel Lefevre is a designer from Detroit, MI working at the intersection of architecture, cartography,
and technology. A graduate of Yale University (M.Arch) and Washington University in St. Louis (B.Arch), she is interested architecture as a synthetic medium which not only constitutes the built environment through brick and mortar construction but also shapes space through the formation of relationships, the entanglement of physical and invisible systems.
CONTACT
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e: rachel . n . lefevre at gmail . com
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PORTFOLIO/CV
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Designer, Michael K. Chen Architecture
New York, NY
Jan 2020-Present
Designer, CXO Architecture
Brooklyn, NY
Mar 2020-Present
Researcher, ‘The World Inside Out’ by Plan B Architecture and Urbanism
New Haven, CT
Spring 2020
Teaching Fellow, Environmental Design & Core IV Urbanism Studio
Professor Anna Dyson and Professor Anthony Acciavatti
New Haven, CT
Fl-2019, SP-2019
Research Assistant, Seoul Biennale by Somatic Collaborative
New York, NY
Summer 2019
EDUCATION
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Master of Architecture, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
2020
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
2017
SKILLS
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Digital Modeling: Rhino, Grasshopper, Blender and Maya
Environmental Analysis: Diva, Ansys, Honeybee/Firefly/Ladybug
Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design
Visualization: V-Ray, Blender, Unreal Engine; World Builder/Gaea for procedural terrain generation
Geospatial Information Systems: ArcMap and QGIS; Analytics using LiDAR, shapefiles and other data types. Production of high quality digital models of complex urban environments from GIS data.
PUBLICATIONS / DISTINCTIONS / PRESS
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