Cristina Córdova
Urban Sustainability Evaluator
Cristina Córdova, born in Ecuador, graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador with a bachelor’s in Architecture. While at college, she became drawn to the study of the urban environment as well as the intrinsic sustainable responsibilities of architectural practice. She received an M.F.A. degree in Design for Sustainability with a focus on the Built Environment, from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Cristina has worked directly with experts in the public and private sectors, collaborating in competitions with international architecture firms, with communities for both academic and professional projects, with students and professionals as lecturer/capacitor and organizer of urban planning/transportation workshops, planning and organizing courses and workshops for students and professionals, designing and quantifying water efficiency strategies and vertical gardens for high rise buildings, designing the graphic material for a new international faculty, and designing/illustrating editorial material. She has worked in the field of research authoring and co-authoring academic articles including international conferences, in addition to collaborating on multiple academic articles on sustainability, urban planning and transportation topics.
From 2018 to 2022, Cristina worked for the Sustainability and Energy Efficiency consultancy Evolution Ltd. In 2024, she joined the Harambee House, Ltd. as a Sustainability Research intern, and then transitioned to being a full-time staff member, part of the Executive Team, and the Sustainability Evaluator at the organization. Cristina has obtained certifications such as the “LEED Green Associate” (2023) and “Lextant’s Research Certification” (2022). She has also won the European Product Design Awards (ePDA) in the category of Eco-Design/Sustainable (2024), with a project designed at SCAD with 3 graduate peers.
Cristina believes in the need to recognize the complex interdependence between nature and humans, understanding our place as a component of a diverse and rich system instead of outside observer; the strength and potential of communities as the core of larger scale improvement of cities, along with the regenerative capacity of the natural environment to support them.