TEN THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CHRISTINE
1. Lives: NW3 London, with husband, Bill, two sons, one dog (Kojak).
2. Has Lived: Hartford, CT; Cambridge, MA; Cambridge, UK; Manhattan, NY.
3. Housework: Renovated modern terraced house in Swiss Cottage, London; currently renovating house on the Connecticut shoreline.
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4. Education for Life: Presenting and defending my projects (on little or no sleep) at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, every six weeks for three years, before a panel of stern, unsmiling critics.
5. Most Famous Architect I Have Worked For: Richard Meier, I. M. Pei, Robert A. M. Stern; you decide.
6. Three Architecture Must-Sees: Tadao Andao's Church of Light in Osaka, Japan; Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France; Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey (I like religious spaces).
7. If I Had the Money: I'd own a work by Barbara Hepworth, Joseph Cornell, or Mark Rothko.
8. Music That Gives Me Goose Bumps: Vocal harmony, a capella, and doo-wop—am deeply in like with the Overtones, a group of vintage-loving house painters discovered singing on a street corner.
9. Last Meal on Earth: Uni sushi and a glass of chilled sake.
10. Favorite Iconic Midcentury Piece: My Ercol dining room chairs.
