Born in Frontier, Saskatchewan in 1955, Colin Cathcart received a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and was awarded the AIA Medal upon receiving his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1983.
Mr. Cathcart joined
with Gregory Kiss in 1983 to form Kiss + Cathcart Architects based
on high standards of design, economy, ecology. Colin
Cathcart has many successful green projects, including: Stuyvesant
Cove Environmental Learning Center (2010), Pitt Street Residence on
Houston Street, New York (2008), Aljira, a Center for Contemporary
Art in Newark, NJ (2002), New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho, New
York City (1997), feasibility and urban planning studies for the Regional
Plan Association, Photovoltaic production facilities for Chronar Corporation
in New York and Alabama, and numerous private lofts and houses in New
York and Canada.
Mr. Cathcart is an associate professor at Fordham University, where he has served
on the executive committee of the Urban Studies program, as Associate Director
of the Environmental Studies Program, and developed cross-disciplinary Pre-Architecture
program.