An architect, urbanist, real-estate developer, and academic, Christopher Calott has developed a uniquely interdisciplinary practice committed to projects which make cities more socially vibrant and beautiful. He has pursued significant research in the areas of urban design, housing, informal settlements, and social infrastructures tied to invited academic appointments at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico and Latin America. And, he has founded two innovative master of real estate development programs within Schools of Architecture, most recently at Berkeley privileging design and urbanism and at Tulane University addressing resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans.

As an architect and developer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he began his career as a lead designer for Antoine Predock, Calott leads an award-winning enterprise that has produced dense mixed-use infill developments and live/work lofts, built innovative residential compounds, adapted historic buildings for commercial reuse, and created urban public spaces. Currently he consults for real-estate developers, municipalities, and nonprofits to implement urban design and development strategies focused on disinvested urban neighborhoods and communities throughout the United States. Calott received degrees from Brown University and his master of architecture from Princeton University; he was also awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in recognition of his design and development practice in service of building communities.