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Charlotte Merilyn Skene-Catling (born 1965) is a British architect who founded and is director of the architectural practice Skene Catling de la Peña in London, England. The daughter of Patrick Skene Catling and Diane Skene Catling (née Wheeler-Nicholson), she was born in October 1965. Skene-Catling studied architecture at the University of Westminster, graduating in 1992. In 2003, she and Jaime de la Peña founded London-based architectural practice "Skene Catling de la Peña" which has completed projects on sites in the United Kingdom, New York, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. Many of her designs are informed by an approach to architecture she calls "geoarchaeology" which involves examining the geological and historical layers of a site. As an educator she has taught architecture to postgraduate groups at the Royal College of Art and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.