Christine Abbott holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia, a Master of Architecture from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (by Fall 2012).
She currently worked as a Senior Editor for the admissions consulting firm InMaginative and independent researcher.
She previously worked with the Creative Exchange Lab (CEL), an interdisciplinary non-profit organization that employs architecture, landscape and public art to promote growth and alleviate symptoms of decline in the city of St. Louis, MO.
Her work emphasizes the intersection of landscape and architecture embedded in a particular ecological and cultural context. She has taught architecture to gifted youth with Duke University’s Talent Identification Program in 2007, 2009, and 2010. As a graduate student, she was awarded the Boardman Architecture Honor Fellowship for overall academic excellence in 2006 and the Book Award for Architectural History and Theory in 2007. She served as a Young Faculty Teaching Fellow at UNC Charlotte teaching architecture foundations, writing and representation from 2007-2009. As a graduate student at Harvard University, she earned distinction for work as part of a graduate research seminar on phytoremediation in 2012. She has published essays on modern architecture and architecture genre writing and was one of six artists to construct Sol Lewitt’s wall drawing #995 for the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC (2009). In addition, she has worked for architecture firms in Hartford, CT San Francisco, CA and Barcelona, Spain.