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Phoebe Crisman received the Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University, where she graduated with Distinction (the school's highest academic honor). Crisman also received the Bachelors degree in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon. Prior to establishing Crisman+Petrus Architects, she practiced architecture and urban design with firms in Chicago, Cambridge, Hong Kong and Washington DC. Phoebe Crisman combines professional practice with research and teaching at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. As Assistant Professor of Architecture, she has taught a broad range of design studios, and course in architecture and urban theory since 1998.

Michael Petrus co-founded Crisman+Petrus architects with the idea that making architecture and planning cities are not mutually exclusive concepts. Rather, ideas about space, history, economics, ecology and how people use them are what bind these disciplines and the primary difference between buildings and cities are the scale at which they are conceptualized. He has nurtured this idea over the past twenty years while working on a wide variety of building types and sizes as well as urban plans in Chicago, Cambridge, Hong Kong, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Tidewater Virginia. Petrus received the Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University, where he graduated with Distinction, and the Bachelors degree in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon. Prior to establishing Crisman+Petrus Architects, he most recently practiced architecture and urban design with William McDonough + Partners in Charlottesville.