Christine Mondor (A 1993)

AIA, LEED AP
Adjunct Faculty, Architecture

Bio

Christine Mondor has taught in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture for 25 years and is founder and strategic principal at her design practice, evolve environment::architecture. In both her teaching and practice, Mondor builds interdisciplinary teams to study sustainability and urban systems with a focus on urban environments, ecology, and infrastructure. 

Teaching

Within the School of Architecture, Mondor teaches architecture, urban design and landscape at the undergraduate and graduate levels and mentors interdisciplinary student projects. Mondor’s courses explore the role of the designer and the community in creating and administering urban systems and she has taught technical and design courses including Infrastructure Studio, Urban Ecology, Site Engineering, Human Factors in Architecture, History of Sustainable Architecture, and History of Landscape Design. 

Education

Mondor received her B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University and studied sustainability in Scandinavia. She is currently studying sustainable cities at Harvard University. Mondor was named as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and has many professional certifications.

Research

Mondor studies how decentralized urban infrastructure for water, energy, food, and mobility can lead to physical and cultural resiliency. Her work focuses on technologies, system structures, and social practices that contribute to the transition of infrastructure systems. She does so with a dual focus on design and empirical research and she frequently works on interdisciplinary projects. She has led research teams studying post-occupancy evaluations, green infrastructure implementation, and urban integrated solar production. She has been tapped to define best practices for national frameworks and has developed strategic documents for municipal, city, and state governments.

Projects

Mondor’s research interests extend into her practice, where she has produced city-wide green infrastructure plans for Buffalo, NY and Pittbsurgh, PA and mobility network planning. Her projects have advanced equitable resiliency practices for cities and municipalities through the creation of place-forward energy plans, resiliency plans, and air quality planning. Her integrative practices have shaped national ecodistrict frameworks and her work has received national recognition from the American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association.

Publications

Mondor’s research and design work has been published internationally in professional publications including Architect magazine, the Journal of Green Building, the International Journal of Architectural Computing, and in books by the MIT Press. She has shared her work at academic conferences, professional conferences, and has brought her research to the public through her TED Talk.