IABSE Annual Lecture and Dinner: Catherine Ramsden

The 2025 IABSE Annual Lecture will be given by Catherine Ramsden of Useful Studio.

Through the redline

By consistently looking through and beyond the narrow remit of the redline, a binding project boundary, we can reach indirect, and even unknown, benefits and outcomes while better responding to critical aspects that disregard edges such as light, air and time.

Catherine Ramsden (Founding Director, Useful Studio)

The early years of her career focussed on planning and urban design working in California on significant environmental projects including strategic masterplans for Mission Bay and Balboa Park in San Diego as well as a townscape scheme for Santa Cruz. During a decade at Foster + Partners, as Associate Partner, Catherine’s key projects included Albion Riverside affordable housing with the Peabody Trust, the Millennium Bridge and the Thomas Deacon Academy.

Her first degree in Environmental Design was at the University of Colorado, Boulder and she has a Masters of Architecture, Magna cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Her education also included a year in Copenhagen.

Catherine is an external examiner and lectures regularly in schools and universities. She is a member of the National Highways Strategic Design Panel.

Dinner

Sponsored by Teufelberger-Redaelli

Immediately following the Catherine’s lecture, please join us for the IABSE Annual Dinner which will take place at the Swan on Bankside with a balcony overlooking the river, St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge.  (21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT)

NB. Ticket sales for dinner close on the 15th May 2025