RACHEL LEFEVRE

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

l:  42.3314° , - 83.0458°


PORTFOLIO/CV

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Online Portfolio Link.


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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H.I. Feldman Nominee Fall ‘19 and Spring ‘20.
Sonia Albert Schimberg Prize ‘20.

Retrospecta 41, Actar. 2018.
Retrospecta 42, Actar. 2019.
Archdaily: 2018 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project.
Curbed. Tanay Warerkar. “Yale architecture students built this innovative timber home for the formerly homeless.”