Christine Cipriani

I am a biographer and historian with a specialty in architecture. My first book, Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape (Metropolis Books), coauthored with Peter McMahon, won the 2015 Historic New England Book Prize. Researching the book was a rare opportunity to combine my passions for architecture, history, and biography with my lifelong attachment to outer Cape Cod. My work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Architect's Newspaper, Architect, ArchitectureBoston, Interior Design, Architectural Record, and Dwell. My next book, The Critic: Ada Louise Huxtable and the Building of Modern America, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2027.

Earlier in my career, I worked as an editor at four major publishers: Beacon Press, Penguin India, Fodor's/Random House, and Routledge. Each house contributed in a different way to my sense of a great narrative, and my international travels—including three years in Delhi—exposed me to a thrilling variety of architecture. 

I studied English literature at the University of Michigan (B.A.), Oxford (junior year), and Yale (M.A.), and architectural history at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Raised in upstate New York, I live near Boston with my husband and daughter.