UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State will continue its spring Lecture and Exhibit Series at 4:30 p.m. March 20 with a visit from Katherine Hogan, co-owner and principal of Katherine Hogan Architects. The lecture will be held in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space and will also be presented via Zoom.

Titled “Working Backwards,” Hogan’s lecture will describe her firm’s hybrid approach to practice. The Raleigh-based practice, started by Hogan and Vincent Petrarca in Raleigh, North Carolina, began with small design-build commercial and residential projects but has grown to include projects for public schools, universities, state parks and nonprofits. The firm’s designs reflect Hogan’s explorations into assembly, tectonic craft and resourcefulness.

Katherine Hogan Architects has earned American Institute of Architects awards at the local, state and national level for innovative design solutions to complex problems and for using ordinary materials inventively. It also received the Architectural League of New York’s 2023 Emerging Voices award and was recently included in an exhibition, titled “A SOUTH FORTY,” at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Hogan is serving her second term as a city council-appointed member of the City of Raleigh Appearance Commission. She also serves as an advisory board member to the Syracuse University School of Architecture and has been a visiting critic at the school since 2015.

As an architect and educator, Hogan approaches each project with the belief that good design can happen at any scale and budget. She has worked with Will Bruder Architects in Phoenix, Arizona, and held a fellowship position with Bryan Bell at Design Corps, a nonprofit architecture practice assisting communities without access to architectural services.

Hogan earned her bachelor of architecture from Syracuse University as a University Scholar, with a minor in Italian language.