Christopher has three years of experience on a range of interiors and new construction projects including numerous projects for client Delta Air Lines at JFK International Airport. He has served as a project contact and designer for the Delta Connection Expansion of Terminal 2 at JFK. Christopher is responsible for project design and day to day coordination with the consultant team at the New York Office of Corgan Associates Architects.
Prior to joining the team at Corgan, Christopher interned with the "Workplace Research and Design Team" (Fidelity Real Estate Company) at Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA where he contributed to the development of a space usage matrix and a refreshed materials palette seen at investor centers nation-wide.
Christopher graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Architecture and minor in Landscape Architecture from Miami University in 2008. Christopher shared a first place rank in his graduating class and received both the departmental book award and Alpha Rho Chi medal for his involvement with the department.
At Miami, Chris was also elected for two consecutive years by his peers to serve as class representative for the Department of Architecture and Interior Design Student Advisory Council where he worked in close conjunction with departmental chair John Weigand to provide input on the curriculum, plan student social events, and lead the planning of four bi-yearly exhibitions of student work. He also served for one term as one of two student members on the campus planning committee where he gained practical experience actively evaluating long and short range campus construction, renovation, and planning initiatives.
Christopher lives in the historic Tudor City neighborhood of Manhattan where he serves on the Board of Directors for Tudor City Greens Inc., a New york 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to preserve and enhance Tudor City's two landmarked parks.
In his spare time, Chris enjoys running and kayaking and continues to actively pursue a passion for cooking and entertaining, gardening, and playing the piano, and has taken courses in Food Science, Principles of Landscape Gardening, and studied piano with David Hagan at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School in Boston, MA. He has undertaken a number of side projects in these fields over the past eight years including catering assignments for private parties of up to fifty people in Pinehurst, NC, landscaping projects for historic residences in the Western Suburbs of Boston, freelance interior design work, and an assignment as a part-time music director playing at one service a week for St. Mary's Parish in East Walpole, MA.
Chris has been fortunate to acquire a unique perspective from a diverse range of experiences living in the city and suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio, Northern New Jersey, and Pinehurst North Carolina. Additionally, Chris has acquired a unique perspective from his father, who is originally a native of England. Other significant experiences include a passion for exploring historic homes, museums, and gardens including visits to numerous places from Maine to California, and a summer spent taking part in design-build studio for the village of Abrafo-Odumasi in Ghana, West Africa.
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