Christopher Illustration

Introduction

Ms. Christopher has over 40 years of experience in Architectural Design, Urban Planning and Architectural Illustration. Dede is the Urban Collaborative’s primary graphic illustrator. Her watercolor, SketchUp and Photoshop renderings help to tell the firm’s planning and conceptual design story. Prior to joining the Urban Collaborative, Ms. Christopher was founder and principal of Christopher Illustration, a company dedicated to the development of healthy urban environments and sustainable design strategies. For over 28 years her firm served clients in the U.S. and abroad providing planning, architecture and illustration services to many award-winning projects.  Ms. Christopher has attended over 160+ design charrettes and planning workshops worldwide as a facilitator, designer and illustrator. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals, books and educational texts in the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, and sustainable design. Since joining the Urban Collaborative in 2017, Ms. Christopher has been a contributing agent on over 30 Area Development plans and has helped in the design of 24+ buildings on Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Joint Base installations and public sector projects.