I believe architects have a responsibility to teach the tangible and intangible capabilities of architecture.

Christopher Kroner

Principal
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Christopher Kroner believes that design is for everyone and sees architecture and urban design as a daily practice of outreach. His work explores ways of regenerating the urban fabric using both new construction and adaptive reuse.

When he joined MASS Design Group in 2017, Christopher co-founded the Hudson Valley Design Lab in Poughkeepsie, where he leads multidisciplinary teams in building networks within communities in need. In addition to overseeing Poughkeepsie-based community outreach, Christopher leads design projects as a Principal at MASS. He recently completed a USGBC LEED Certified Office and Shop Building for the Hudson Valley Farm Hub (Kingston, NY) and currently leads the design of the Youth Opportunity Union (Poughkeepsie, NY).

Christopher’s urban design work has garnered notable recognition. In 2023, his team’s proposal for the redesign of Franklin Park (Boston, MA) was described as “thoughtful” and “poetic”, and received the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Award in Analysis and Planning. In 2021, the National Canadian LGBTQ2+ Monument (Ottawa, ON), designed under Christopher’s leadership and in collaboration with artist Stephen Andrews, was shortlisted by the Department of Canadian Heritage. 

Outside of MASS, Christopher serves as a design consultant for the Poughkeepsie Planning Board and volunteers on a number of community and regional coalitions. He has taught architectural and urban design at leading institutions worldwide, including Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. In 2022, Chris served as an option studio guest critic at the University of Virginia. 

Prior to working at MASS, Christopher spent a decade as an associate partner with Dean/Wolf Architects where he conducted a series of award-winning projects in all stages of design and construction. “Restless Response: Emergency Medical Station 50” at Queens Hospital garnered the American Architecture Prize Gold Medal in Institutional Architecture in 2016, and the station was featured in Architectural Record in March 2017. Additionally, “Ephemeral Edge House,” a rural retreat home south of Albany won a Progressive Architecture Award in 2012 and a New York City AIA Honor Award in 2019.

Christopher holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, where he received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize. He received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he received the Sean Steele-Nicholson Memorial Award.