Christine Macy

Christine Macy is a professor of architectural design and history at Dalhousie University in Canada. Her research includes the representation of cultural identity in architecture, public space design, civic infrastructure, temporary urbanism and festival architecture. A native Californian, she studied architecture at UC Berkeley and M.I.T. and practiced for several years in the United States before establishing Filum, her design partnership with Sarah Bonnemaison, in Canada in 1990. Her books include Architecture and nature: creating the American landscape (Routledge, 2003) which received Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2005; Festival architecture (Routledge, 2007); Responsive Textile Environments (TUNS, 2007); Free Lab (TUNS, 2008); and Dams (Norton, forthcoming).