Audrey Koehler Christie
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Birth Country: Canada
Resident City: Calgary
Resident State/Province: Alberta
Resident Country: Canada
Notes: "In many ways architecture is the perfect profession for a woman, because of the flexibility it offers to fit a practice around family events and daily responsibilities. However, these very facts produce there own problems. And distractions are always close at hand."
Sources: Biographical sketch found in the Blanche Lemco van Ginkel Collection in the IAWA
Specialties
No specialties on record
Jobs
Employer: Office of Henry Fliess, Architect
Title: Part time drafting
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: While working at the Office, Christie worked independently on two houses.
Employer: Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Title: Architectural and Planning Department
City: Ottawa
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Employer: Edward Cahaci, Architect
Title: Contract Design work
City: Ottawa
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: Christie worked on offices and apartments, church, houses, schools, arctic hostels. She also entered competitions with E. Cahaci, W. Lewandowski and M. Pine.
Employer: Ottawa Municipal Art Centre
Title: Art teacher for children's classes
City: Ottawa
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Employer: National Gallery of Canada
Title: Docent
City: Ottawa
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Employer: Saturday School
Title: Founder and teacher of Children's arts classes and mathematics
City: Calgary
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: When Chrisite moved to Calgary in 1974, she and her family lived in Grise Fiord with a small Inuit Community in the North West Territories, where she taught children's art classes. When she moved back to Calgary she started the Saturday School with others. The school was an alternative education school based on the arts.
Employer: T. Laird, Colin Bell, and D.M. Snow, Architects
Title: Design work
City: Calgary
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: Christie worked on renovations offices, houses, senior citizens' apartments, a recreation complex for the city of calgary, a church, a proposal design for multi-use arts centre for the North Peace Arts Council with Don M. Snow.
Employer: Society of Preservation of Architectural Resources in Calgary (SPARC)
City: Calgary
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: Christie worked preparation of proposals for appropriate use of heritage properties, i.e. a joint project with the University of Calgary Urban Lab, proposing an Urban Studies Centre and City Museum for Calgary's #1 Firehall.
Employer: private practice
Title: Architect
City: Calgary
State: Alberta
Country: Canada
Notes: Christie worked on house renovations and additions as wella as the design and construction supervision of her own residence. She also worked on a prototype inner city house with passive "solar attic" to assist the heating system. She then received a com
Collaborators
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Apprenticeships
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Awards
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Exhibitions
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Notable Projects
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Education
Institution: University of Toronto
Department: Architecture
Degree: Bachelor of Architecture, with Honours
Licensing
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Professional Affiliations
Organization: Co-Design Calgary
Role: Member
Notes: Co-Design Calgary is a team of artists and architects who translate verbal ideas of community groups into sketches for use in project proposals.
Publications By
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