Rachael Chase

Rachael Chase is a professional designer of residential architecture in western Massachusetts. Her work is focused on clean, warm and modern whole-house renovations; creating new from the old while holding on to character, and bringing a cohesiveness, beauty and efficiency to spaces that change the lives of the people who live there.

Chase graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor’s degree of studio art in sculpture and installation, and from Rhode Island School of Design with a master of architecture.

Chase has taught studio architecture for the last decade at three of the Five Colleges—UMass, Hampshire, and Amherst College—and is now thrilled to be at Smith.

“Teaching undergraduate and graduate students the conceptual process of architecture is a constant reminder to think about my own process - what I have learned, how to use that knowledge, and how much more there is to know. Architecture is an ever-expanding creative and technical process of learning and innovating and there is always more to explore.”