How we shaped by history and the present. | Christy Anderson | TEDxVaughanWomen

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Christy Anderson studies the ways architecture changes us emotionally. She works on both historic and contemporary buildings in order to understand how we are shaped by history and the present.

Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. 
Christy Anderson studies the ways architecture changes us emotionally. She works on both historic and contemporary buildings in order to understand how we are shaped by history and the present. Students at the University of Toronto praise her enthusiastic teaching style. The author of several books on architectural history, Christy is now writing a history of the connections between architecture and natural history. 

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