Christine Macy

General Information

Occupation: Professor

Birth City: San Diego

Resident City: Halifax

Notes: Christine Macy is a professor of architectural design and history at Dalhousie University in Canada. Her research areas include the representation of cultural identity in architecture, public spaces, civic infrastructure, temporary urbanism and festival architecture. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she practiced architecture with the Edelman Partnership in New York and MACK Architects in San Francisco before establishing her partnership, Filum, with Sarah Bonnemaison in 1990, specializing in lightweight structures and public space design for festivals.Before joining the faculty at Dalhousie, Prof. Macy taught at UC Berkeley and the University of British Columbia. Her latest book (co-authored with S. Bonnemaison) is Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape, Routledge, 2003, and she is currently working on a visual history of dams in the United States.Christine Macy teaches architectural design and history at Dalhousie Univer

Specialties

Subject: Architectural Design, Environmental Design, Architectural History, Environmental History.

Jobs

Employer: Dalhousie University

Title: Professor

City: 5410 Spring Garden Road, Halifax

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Start Date: September 01, 1993

Notes: Tenured

Collaborators

Name: Dr. Sarah Bonnemaison

Project: Various projects: architectural design, installations, criticism, curating, history

Organization: Filum Ltd. and Dalhousie University

City: Halifax

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Exhibitions

Notable Projects

Education

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department: Architecture

Degree: M.Arch.

Start Date: September 01, 1983

End Date: June 01, 1985

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Department: Architecture

Degree: A.B. (Arch.)

Start Date: September 01, 1977

End Date: June 01, 1982

Institution: Technische Universität Wien

Department: Architecture

Degree: Student

Start Date: September 01, 1979

End Date: June 01, 1980

Licensing

License: Architectural License

Organization: Washington State

License: License

Organization: Ordre des architectes du Quebec

License: Certificate

Organization: NCARB

Professional Affiliations

Organization: Society of Architectural Historians

Role: Member

Publications By

Title: Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape

Co-author: Sarah Bonnemaison

Publisher: Routledge

City: London and New York

Country: delete

Title: Greening the City: Wastewater Treatment in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Publisher: Dalhousie University, School of Architecture (TUNS Press)

City: Halifax

State: Nova Scotia

Country: Canada

Title: “Three views of ‘frontier’ at the World’s Columbian Exposition”

Publication: Architecture as Experience, (eds) Andrew Ballantyne and Dana Arnold

Publisher: Routledge

City: London and New York

Country: Canada

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