Kyle Schumann is Cofounder of After Architecture, an award-winning architecture studio which has completed projects for a wide range of clients including Landmark Columbus Foundation, the Washington D.C. Department of General Services, Lycoming College, Cornell University, and Marriott.

Schumann is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia where he is Director of the Before Building Laboratory, leading robotic fabrication research and development. Schumann seeks to advance the accessibility of digital fabrication, leveraging democratized technologies as well as inventing and building low-cost ground-up fabrication and imaging systems. His work spans analog processes in woodworking, metalworking, casting, ceramics, and textile production, to advanced and novel digital fabrication technologies, robotics, and machine visioning systems. In 2022, he co-curated the Biomaterial Building Exposition.

Schumann’s accolades include the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, Emerging Designer in the Virginia by Design Awards, the Timber Education Prize, the Design Build Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the Small Project Award from the American Institute of Architects National, ten honors from the Society of American Registered Architects, and four placements in The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards.