Kristine Marie Stiphany is a Fulbright fellow and registered architect in Texas and New York, where she is assistant professor and Director of the Design with Resilient Environments Lab at the University at Buffalo - State University of New York. Kristine is a leading expert on social inclusion and housing in urban areas, focusing on the role of informal settlements and community-based data for sustainable building research and design in Latin America and along the U.S. – Mexico border. Kristine has designed projects of all scales for affordable housing and urban redevelopment in the United States and Latin America to advance climate resilience, rental housing security, inclusive cities, intergenerational health, and aging in place. She is the recipient of several design awards for housing, landscape, and public space projects in Austin, Brasilia, and São Paulo and has published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Latin American Research Review, and Urban Studies, among others.
Previously, Kristine was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she founded the Chapa Civic Data Lab, has taught urban design, planning, and architecture studios at the University of Texas at Austin, Escola da Cidade (São Paulo) and Texas Tech University, and worked at Studio Gang and Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassebaum. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Co-chair of the Latin American Housing Network, and Community Development Track Co-Chair for the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. Kristine holds a PhD in Urban Planning and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.
Contact Kristine about architecture and urban design commissions, research collaborations, and consulting at kristine@chapa.io
