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Phoebe Crisman Phoebe Crisman is a practicing architect, urbanist and Assistant
Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where
she teaches architectural design studios and lectures on architectural
theory and urbanism. Ms. Crisman was educated at Harvard University
and Carnegie Mellon, and conducted post-graduate research as a
Netherlands-America Fulbright Fellow in Amsterdam. She practiced
with firms in Chicago, Cambridge and Hong Kong prior to establishing
Crisman+Petrus Architects in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her professional
work been widely published and has received several design awards,
including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Discovery
Museum and Urban Bridges, her winning entry in the AIA Designing
for Density Competition in 2003. In her teaching,
research, and practice, Ms. Crisman investigates fragmentary
and overlooked places, processes and materials. She has published
numerous essays, most recently “Outside the
Frame: A Critical Analysis of Urban Image Surveys” in the
journal Places: A Forum of Design for the Public Realm. Her forthcoming
book, Site Out of Mind, examines design strategies founded on an
ethical mode of attentiveness to unacknowledged places. In her
design practice, Ms. Crisman explores eco-effective design strategies
that incorporate complex infrastructure systems, greater land use
density, site specificity and community planning. She explored
these issues in the Urban Bridges project by designing a series
of sustainable, high-density bridge buildings over the Massachusetts
Turnpike in Boston. She began this agenda while transforming a
27-building abandoned industrial complex into the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) with Bruner/Cott & Associates. Currently Ms. Crisman is designing strategies for the co-existence of waterfront industry and ecological regeneration in several projects along the Elizabeth River in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region. Funded by a Virginia Environmental Endowment Grant, she has just completed work on a Sustainable Revitalization Plan for 330 acres of industrial land at Money Point, in collaboration with The Elizabeth River Project and the UVA Institute for Environmental Negotiation. Since January 2006 Ms. Crisman has led an interdisciplinary team of University of Virginia students and diverse community partners to design and fabricate The Learning Barge - a floating, self-sustaining environmental education field station on the Elizabeth River. The project was awarded the 2006 National Student Collaborative Design Award from the American Institute of Landscape Architects.
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