Chris Mackey is a current student of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Master of Architecture program and will be graduating in 2014. In 2010, he graduated from the architecture major of Yale University and worked for a year after graduation at Dean Sakamoto Architects LLC and the Yale Center for Earth Observation. His interests center primarily around sustainable cities and infrastructure, including his work at Dean Sakamoto Architects LLC where he was the project manager in the design of a course on storm-resistant architecture taught at University of Hawaii. His work at the Center for Earth Observation was based around a personally-developed project using satellite imagery to evaluate Chicago's attempts to cool its micorclimate in the face of urban heat island and global warming. Chris also worked at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen for the Summer of 2009 and worked the Summer of 2008 at the New York City Skyscraper Museum.