Kristine Stiphany is a registered architect and Director of the Design for Resilient Environments Lab and faculty at the University at Buffalo / State University of New York. She specializes in the urban design of housing, with a specific focus on informal housing production and types; the property dynamics, morphological shifts, and financial patterns of rental markets; and urban redevelopment inequalities. Her current projects with the Design for Resilient Environments Lab examine the impact of rental markets on the form and experience of cities, the deteriorating conditions of single-family homes converted to rental housing in Rust Belt cities, the uneven resilience of colonias along the U.S. Mexico border, and the role of public policy in reshaping post-redevelopment economies and urban landscapes in Latin America.
Kristine’s work informs policy and the design of architecture, public landscapes, and urban environments. She has consulted on projects across the public and private sectors, including work with the São Paulo Secretariat of Housing, large-scale mixed-use developments, and community nonprofits.
Before joining SUNY, Kristine was a tenure-track faculty member at Texas Tech University and a National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of São Paulo’s Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo and worked at Studio Gang.
Her recent design studios include ‘Reimagining Casco Bay: Designing for Climate Resilience in Coastal Cities,’ a studio sponsored by the Remain Nantucket Foundation, ‘After Shrimp: Transitioning Ecuador’s Coastal Landscapes,’ and ‘Housing Hybrids: Reimagining Landscape on São Paulo’s Peri-Urban Margins.’ Her scholarship includes peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of Architectural Education, Urban Studies, and Journal of Planning Education and Research, among others. Her creative practice has received multiple design awards, most recently from the Texas Society of Architects for the Sparks Oasis Community Resilience Hub in El Paso.
