Christine Mueller received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (Magna Cum Laude) from Washington University in St. Louis (1995), and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (2000). She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Boston Architectural Center. As a founding partner of vir.mueller architects, she leads the design teams in concept development, as well as in the design evolution of all projects. Based on her research of India’s first concrete building in Pondicherry, Christine co-authored golconde: the introduction of modernism in india– a seminal book on the principals that led to the advent of modern architecture in the Indian sub-continent.