About

V. Mitch McEwen is an architectural designer, writer, and educator whose work moves across building practice, exhibitions, research, and teaching. Her work treats architecture as both a material discipline and a cultural medium, engaging questions of labor, extraction, displacement, and reparations through form, materials, and siting.

Much of her most impactful work unfolds collaboratively. She is a co-founder of the Black Reconstruction Collective and has worked through a series of design platforms, including SUPERFRONT (2008–2013), A(n) Office (2013–2020), and, since 2020, Atelier Office. Across these formations, architecture is approached as a site of political imagination, material experimentation, and public address.

Since 2020, Atelier Office has engaged forward-thinking clients on commissions toward non-extractive architectural futures, translating research into site-specific design through material experimentation and environmental strategy. The practice’s work spans residential projects, cultural spaces, exhibitions, and prototypes, and remains closely connected to McEwen’s writing and teaching.

McEwen’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Istanbul Design Biennial, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, among other venues. Her projects and writing have been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, Architectural Record, Metropolis, PIN-UP Magazine, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

She is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University , where she directs the Black Box research group. Her teaching integrates design studios, building technologies, seminars, and fabrication workshops, foregrounding the relationship between theory, material practice, and architectural ethics.

McEwen received her Master of Architecture from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, cum laude in Social Studies. She has held academic appointments at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.