Caitlin Charlet

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • ARCHITECTURE
  • SUSTAINABLE PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN
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Office: ENVD 110

Green Building | Social Justice | Urban Design | Ecology and Restoration | Environmental Justice | Public Lands | Urban Transformation | Architecture | Urban Greenness | Bio Materials

Ms. Charlet is an educator, urbanist, designer and advocate. As the head of CU Boulder's Biomodernity Lab, her research focuses on biomaterials and alternative building materials and methodologies in support of local inquiries & material assemblies. This work is situated at the experimental intersection of transformative design strategies, biogenic materials and the environment. Projects center on the exploration of regenerative structural components and frameworks for scalable alternative plant based building solutions.

Upon earning a duel Masters degree in Architecture and Design & Urban Ecology from Parson’s School of Constructed Environments, Ms. Charlet went onto work for Michael Sorkin at Terreform as an Urban Designer for NYC (Steady) State: WasteNot project and consulting designer on the Homegrown project. Following Sorkin’s passing Ms. Charlet founded MATERIALBUREAU and SoIUaCAA: Studio of Inclusionary Urbanism and Civic Architectural Actions. 

MATERIALBUREAU is a research studio and consultancy practice working to forefront equity through a holistic and sustainable intersection of alternative healthy materials and construction methodologies within our built and unbuilt environments. Ms. Charlet also volunteers for Design Advocates and is a fellow at The Center for Conscious Design and the Urban Design Forum on research projects that support a more inclusive New York City and globally. Ms. Charlet has taught, lectured and given workshops at Parsons, Pratt, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York among other colleges and universities for the last two decades. This summer Ms. Charlet was in residence with the Urban Soil Institute / SWALE on Governors Island researching soil, hempseed and design speculations for growing industrial hemp and bamboo for structures throughout the island.