CHRISTINE L. MADRID
2791 Barrsden Farm
Charlottesville, Virginia 22911
CLM2C@virginia.edu

Education:

Master of Architectural History, May 1998
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Double major: American Architecture; East Asian Architecture
Thesis Title: "The Mission 66 Visitor Centers, 1956-1966: Early Modern Architecture in the National Park Service"

Bachelor of Science, Architectural Studies, June 1992
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Major: American Architecture


Employment:

Digital Image Processesing and Web Site Editor/Consultant

  • New Media Center, University of Virginia, June 1998 to present
  • Digital Media Center, University of Virginia, September 1996 to present
    • Advise and train students, faculty, and staff on software and hardware options for scanning and processing digital images.
    • Provide consultation to individuals and complete projects as part of the Internet-accessible digital image collection for teaching and research at the University of Virginia.

    Completed and current projects include:

    • "History of American Landscape Architecture," a course-related web site for the study of historic American landscape architecture from the seventeenth century to the present. Site consists of 2000 digitized slides and 50 pages of text as compiled by Reuben Rainey, professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.
    • "Historic Buildings of Albemarle County, Virginia," an interactive compact-disk accompanying a publication detailing local architecture as compiled by Ed Lay, professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
    • "The Architecture of China," a searchable web-site containing over one-hundred images. Photographs and information compiled by Christine Madrid in 1997 during a month-long architectural study tour in the Beijing area.

Transcription Editor

  • Getting Word: The Monticello African-American Oral History Project, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 1997 to present
    • Transcribed tapes of interviews with descendants of slaves.
  • City of Philadelphia Sculpture Survey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1997 to present
    • Transcribed field survey tapes for largest municipal sculpture survey ever undetaken.

Historian

  • National Park Service, Stewardship and Partnerships, System Support Office, National Capital Region, Washington, D.C., December 1994 to August 1996
    • Documented and discovered sites for the List of Classified Structures (LCS), an inventory database maintained by the National Park Service (NPS) containing a listing and description of all historic properties within NPS administered lands, evaluated by National Register of Historic Places criteria.
    • Completed field surveys at NPS sites in the Washington, D.C., region covering more than 1100 industrial, residential, and funerary structures. Relocated oldest cemetery in Montgomery County, Maryland (ca. 1776), and discovered early nineteenth century Plantation ruins in Prince William County, Virginia.
  • National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), Washington, D.C., June 1992 to December 1994
    • Conducted final review, verification, and edit of HABS/HAER manuscripts, photographs, and measured drawings for the formal archival collection held at the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
    • Developed and implemented a classification system for industrial and architectural complexes, used as the basis of categorization for HABS/HAER materials of this type.
    • Co-wrote the first HAER Historian's Procedures Manual and assisted in editing the overall HAER guidelines for documenting sites and industrial processes.

Honors and Achievements:

Special Achievement Award, May 1993, recognizing attention to detail and outstanding organizational and editing skills as a HABS/HAER historian.

Secretary, Society of Architectural Historians, Thomas Jefferson Chapter, 1997-1998.


Publications:

Contributing Editor, National Geographic: Guide to America's Stately Homes, Henry Weincek, ed., to be published by National Geographic Press, 1999. Researcher and writer for illustrated guidebook to 150 historic homes across the United States.

Illustration Editor, Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, AIA, ed., published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. Compiled over 400 illustrations for use in the dictionary. Reference text contains 10,000 terms defining buildings, structural elements, materials, and styles.


Computer Skills:

Macintosh and IBM programs including:

  • Database Managers:
    • Dbase III
    • FileMaker Pro
    • Microsoft Access
    • Microsoft Excel
  • Desktop Publishing and Image Manipulation:
    • Adobe Illustrator, PageMaker, and Photoshop
  • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) editors:
    • BB Edit
    • Claris Home Page
    • Simpletext
  • Word Processing Programs:
    • Microsoft Word
    • WordPerfect
  • Other:
    • File Transfer Protocol (FTP): Fetch and WS-FTP
    • Global Positioning System (GPS)
    • Image scanner software (slide and flatbed)
    • MS-DOS
    • OmniPagePro
    • QuickTime Virtual Reality
    • UNIX
    • WIN-ZIP

Additional information and references available upon request.

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