Aurelie Frolet

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amf0134@auburn.edu
607.227.4508

Education

Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
M.Arch

Richmond Harold Shreve Thesis Award

University of Georgia
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Comparative Literature

HOPE Academic Achievement Full-Tuition Scholarship

Tsinghua University
Year-long study abroad program in Beijing

2018

2010

2006-07

Academic Positions

Auburn University
Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
Assistant Professor and First-Year Studio Coordinator

Courses:
First Year B.Arch Studios
Visual Communication
Introduction to Digital Media
Careers in Design and Construction: Practices, Projects, and Priorities
Seminar in Aspects of Design: Water Infrastructure in Mobile Bay
Third Year B.Arch studio: grant funded
SOM Research Prize Seminar

Syracuse University
School of Architecture
Assistant Teaching Professor

Courses:
First Year B.Arch Studios
Second Year B.Arch Studios
Representation I
Architectural Design for Non-Majors
Directed Research

Syracuse University in Florence
Architecture Program
Adjunct Faculty

Courses:
Drawing Water: Inventing Hydrological Hybrids
Types & Gripes: Typology and its Discontents

Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
Teaching Associate

Course:
Architectural Design Studio (Summer College)

Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
Teaching Assistant

Courses:
Media of Representation (Prof. Dasha Khapalova)
Introduction to Architecture (Prof. Vince Mulcahy)

Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art, & Planning
Research Assistant (Prof. Lily Chi)

2023-present

2020-2023

2018-2020

2017

2017

2016

Practice

A S D F
Auburn, AL
Co-Founder

Selected Best New Practice by The Architect’s Newspaper in 2021

Projects:
Edgewood Dogtrot House Renovation, Atlanta, GA
Wondrous Pools Art Museum, Bacoli, Italy

Bjarke Ingels Group
New York, NY
Intern Architect

Projects:
Resilient by Design, San Francisco (competition-winning team)
Galeries Lafayette, Paris
Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, MA
Audemars Piguet Hotel and Museum, Switzerland

Morris Adjmi
New York, NY
Intern Architect

Projects:
XO Mixed-use tower, Brooklyn, NY (competition-winning team)

Halard-Halard Architectural Design
Brooklyn, NY
Project Designer

Studio Bartleby
Brooklyn, NY
Junior Designer

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Curatorial Intern

2020

2017

2016

2012-14

2012-13

2008

Publications

Columbia World Projects
Funding source: Columbia University
“Transforming Wastewater Infrastructure in the U.S. Story Map”
Award: $15,657, external funding
Role: Principal Investigator

Description: The project team (one Undergraduate Research Assistants and me) will produce
photographs and create drawings and renderings for a story map of wastewater infrastructure in the U.S., highlighting affordable solutions for sanitation improvements that primarily benefit rural and low-income communities. Story maps are interactive, digital tools that combine maps, photographs, drawings and narratives to visually portray data and geographic information. (forth coming)

The Middlebury Campus
Schierman, Lizi. “Water under the bridge: Visiting architect Aurelie Frolet.”
Middlebury, VT: The Middlebury Campus, 2026. Web.

Cornell Journal of Architecture
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“The Case of the Missing Water: Enacting a Hydrological Spectacle at Silver Lake.”
Cornell Journal of Architecture, no. 13. Print.

National Conference on the Beginning Design Student: Tooling
Conference Proceedings
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Ten (Extra-)Canonical Huts: Vernacular Analysis as a Tool for Climate-Responsive Beginning Design Education.”
North Carolina State University. Forthcoming, 2025.

Double-blind peer review.

Design Communications Association: Between the Lines
Conference Proceedings
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Drawing Water: Inventing Hydrological Hybrids.”
Montana State University, 2025.

Blind peer-review.

Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society: Urban Futures Cultural Pasts
Conference Proceedings
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Drawing Divine Water: Analyzing the Nuragic Holy Wells of Sardinia.”
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, March 15, 2025.

Double-blind peer-review.

The Architect’s Newspaper
Seward, Aaron, ed. Best of Design 2021.
New York: The Architect’s Newspaper, 2021. 87. Print.

The Architect’s Newspaper
“Meet the Winners of Our 2021 Best of Practice Awards.”
The Architect’s Newspaper, June 30, 2021.

Competitions Magazine
“2018/2019 Steedman Fellowship: Infrastructure”
Competitions, April, 2019.

2026

2026

2026

2025

2024

2024

2021

2021

2019

Refereed Presentations

National Conference on the Beginning Design Student: Tooling
Conference
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Ten (Extra-)Canonical Huts: Vernacular Analysis as a Tool for Climate-Responsive Beginning Design Education.”
North Carolina State University. Forthcoming, 2025.

Double-blind peer review.

Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society: Urban Futures Cultural Pasts
Conference
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Drawing Divine Water: Analyzing the Nuragic Holy Wells of Sardinia.”
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Double-blind peer-review.

Design Communications Association: Between the Lines
Conference
Frolet, Aurelie. (100% contribution)
“Drawing Water: Inventing Hydrological Hybrids.”
Montana State University.

Blind peer-review.

2025

2024

2024

Invited Presentations

Gulf Adaptation Studio Fellows Program
Invited presenter

Description: The Fellows Program is part of a Gulf Adaptation Studio grant funded by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and awarded in 2024. Led by Rob Holmes, the project brings together a cross-disciplinary team spanning environmental science, landscape architecture, biosystems engineering, and graphic design. Within this initiative, students participate in a three-week, research-intensive fellowship focused on Mobile Bay. As part of the program, I presented my research and shared a drawing-centered methodology as a framework for investigation and representation.

Cameron Visiting Architect Program
Invited presenter

Description: The CVA at Middlebury College is a visiting appointment supporting an architect in a week-long residence. During my residency, I participated in four studio reviews and delivered a public lecture on my research and pedagogy. Two architects are invited each year.

Architecture Sarasota
Invited panelist

Description: Discussed New College’s future in relation to its coastal location and frequent flooding

Participants: Ted Brown, Alan Plattus, Sonia Chao, Taryn Sabia, Venesa Alicea-Chuqui

Designing for Resilience Symposium
Invited presenter (with Ted Brown)

Description: Presented work related to coastal resilience in urban contexts

Participants: Alan Plattus, David Mohney, Sonia Chao, Jeff Carney, Taryn Sabia

Penn State Department of Architecture
State College, PA

Description: Invited lecturer for advanced drawing seminar led by Tess Clancy

2026

2026

2023

2022

2021

Awards and Fellowships

Columbia World Projects
Funding source: Columbia University
“Transforming Wastewater Infrastructure in the U.S. Story Map”
Award: $15,657, external funding
Role: Principal Investigator

Description: The project team produced photographs and created drawings and renderings for a story map of wastewater infrastructure in the U.S., highlighting affordable solutions for sanitation improvements that primarily benefit rural and low-income communities. Story maps are interactive, digital tools that combine maps, photographs, drawings and narratives to visually portray data and geographic information.

Cameron Visting Architect Program
Funding source: Middlebury College
Award: $3,000 including travel and lodging, external funding

Description: The CVA at Middlebury College is a visiting appointment supporting an architect in a week-long residence. During my residency, I participated in four studio reviews and delivered a public lecture on my research and pedagogy. Two architects are invited each year.

2025 Competitive Outreach Scholarship Grant (COSG) Award
“Imaging Underground: Visually Illustrating Wastewater Systems to Inform and Empower Black Belt Communities”
Funding source: Auburn University
Award: $18,000 internal funding
Role: Principal Investigator (w/CO-PIs Emily McGlohn, Jillian Maxcy-Brown)

Description: The grant award is for the development of a visual reference manual to raise awareness about appropriate wastewater management for Black Belt residents, particularly in Hale County. One of our deliverables is an extension article based on the knowledge gleaned from research and production.

SOM Foundation: Research Prize
“Imaging Underground: Visually Illustrating Wastewater Systems to Inform and Empower Black Belt Communities”
Award: $30,000, external funding
Role: Principal Investigator (w/Co-PIs Emily McGlohn, Jillian Maxcy-Brown)
Start date: August 2025
End date: August 2026

Description: Our team will use funding from the SOM Foundation to develop a visual reference manual to raise awareness about appropriate wastewater management for Black Belt residents, particularly in Hale County.

Auburn University: CADC Seed Grant Program
“Imaging Underground: Visually Illustrating Wastewater Systems to Inform and Empower Black Belt Communities”
Award: $8,000 internal funding
Role: Principal Investigator (w/Co-PI Emily McGlohn)
Start date: January 2024
End date: December 2024

Description: Our team will use funding from the CADC seed grant to develop a visual reference manual to raise awareness about appropriate wastewater management for Black Belt residents, particularly in Hale County.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
“Gulf Futures Design Studio - Phase II”
Award: $744,920 external funding
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI Rob Holmes)
Start date: August 2024
End date: August 2027

Description: Funding for a seminar and two studios addressing water infrastructure in Mobile Bay.

Auburn University: CADC Seed Grant Program
“Drawing Divine Water: Analyzing the Nuragic Holy Wells of Sardinia”
Award: $6,640, Internal funding
Role: Principal Investigator
Start date: January 2023
End date: December 2023

Description: Travel and research to Sardinian holy wells to produce analytical and projected drawings to be developed into a book chapter, proposal for symposium, or conference paper upon completion of drawing phase.

The Architect’s Newspaper
Best of Practice (w/ASDF partner David Shanks)
Category: Architect, New Firm, Northeast
Jury: Verda Alexander, Refik Anadol, Sean Canty, Katherine Darnstadt, Jared Della Valle, Erleen Hatfield, Michael Hsu, Samuel Medina, David A. Rubin, Pascale Sablan, Troy Schaum, Erica Stoller, Ian Thomas, Kim Yao, Ann Yoachim, Michael Young

Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Description: Funding to support research travel to study hydrological infrastructure in the former Roman Empire

Finalist, Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
Washington University in St. Louis
Jury: Andrea Leers, Linda Ives, Lisa Iwamoto, Linda Samuels, Marion Weiss

Richmond Harold Shreve Thesis Award
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

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