Christine
(Tina) Govan
(1958– )
Govan grew up in many places and moved to Chapel Hill in 1973 where she went to Chapel Hill High School. After attending UNC-CH for two years, she earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture degree from the NCSU School of Design. After two years in the Peace Corps in Liberia, where she met her husband, she graduated with a Masters of Architecture from MIT. A guest professor at MIT invited her to work in Japan, where she spent two years with Atelier Zo of Hokkaido. Returning to the US, she worked for Kanda Associates Architects of Cambridge MA then moved to North Carolina. Her firm, Tina Govan Architecture, operates from both Raleigh and Chattanooga TN. She was the News and Observer Tar Heel of the Week in September 2014. She formed SOMOS in 2017 which changed to Placemaking Studio.
Sources include: Tina Govan; Jason Hart.
