Arielle Condoret
Schechter
(1959– )
Born in Algeria, Schechter moved to Chapel Hill in 1962. "I was a cubist ever since I was a little girl," she says, and remembers admiring Picasso and Martha Graham from an early age. After graduating from the NC School of the Arts, she attended the Juilliard School of Music playing the bassoon. Next came the NCSU School of Design where she studied with Frank Harmon and Harwell Harris. Her nickname at NCSU was "Modie" for her ardent devotion to Modernism, even in the face of much more popular post-Modernism. Graduating in 1987, she worked on some projects with her Dad, noted Chapel Hill architect Jon Condoret, until the mid-1990s when she became principal of her own firm. In 2014 she launched a new series of small house designs called Micropolis Houses®, a collection of customizable Modernist homes from 150 to 1500 sf. Hangin' Out with HHH, Audie's remembrances of her professor, Harwell Hamilton Harris. Photo at left, above, by her father, architect Jon Condoret. She has been featured in: Green Building and Design, Atomic Ranch, Residential Design, Inhabitat, Chapel Hill Magazine, Residential Design, Architects and Artisans, Chatham Magazine, and Archello.com.
2020 NC State Lecture
Sources include: Arielle Schechter; Newphire Building; Kim Weiss; Anchorage Building Company; Chatham County Tax Department.
