NAAB Faculty Resumes, 2013 - Tulane School of Architecture

Christopher Calott, AIA
Professor of Practice
Courses Taught (F2013)
Newly Hired Director of the MSRED Program
Educational Credentials:
B.A., Brown University, 1983
M.Arch., Princeton University, School of Architecture, 1987
Teaching Experience:
Visiting Associate Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, 1994-1996
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1996-1998
Studio Coordinator, Mexico Summer Urban Design Program, Mexico City, 1999-2002
Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, 2005
International Visiting Prof., ISTHMUS: School of Architecture, Panama City, Panama, 2006, 2009, 2011
Loeb Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, 2011-2012
Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1998-2013
Professor of Practice, Tulane University, New Orleans, 2013-Present
Professional Experience:
Intern, Michael Graves Atchitect, Princeton, NJ, 1984-1985
Project Designer, Arthur Erickson Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1985-1986
Lead Project Designer, Antoine Predock Architect, Los Angeles, CA, 1987-1992
Principal, Christopher Calott Architecture, Albuquerque, NM, 1992-2000
Partner, Infill Solutions, Albuquerque, NM, 2001-2011
Principal, Calott and Gifford, Albuquerque, NM, 2000-Present
Licenses/Registration:
New Mexico
Selected Publications and Recent Research:
"Housing as a Form of Non-Formal Urbanism" published in Extreme Urbanism II, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fall, 2012.
"Return to Common Ground: New and Revitalized Plazas in New Mexico," published in The Plazas of
New Mexico, Trinity Press, San Antonio, Fall, 2011.
"Urban Interlopers," published in Metropolis, March, 2008.
Colonias at the New Mexico/Mexico Border: A Strategy for Transformation, Sunland Park, New Mexico,
with Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, for the State of New Mexico, 2008.
"Unexpected Opportunities of an Urbanist Practice," in Professional Practice 101: Business Strategies
and Case Studies in Architecture, edited by Andrew Pressman, FAIA, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken,
New Jersey, 2006.
"Re-Construction of the Plaza Juarez, Ciudad Juarez," published in ARQUINE: Revista lnternacioanal
de Arquitectura. #36, Mexico City, June, 2006.
"FRONTERA/BORDER, 7 th Concurso lnternacional ARQUINE: A Border Crossing at Anapra, Ciudad
Juarez-Sunland Park, New Mexico," published in ARQUINE: Revista lnternacioanal de Arguitectura,
#32, Mexico City, June, 2005.
Professional Memberships:
The American Institute of Architects