Vertical Architecture Enterprises · Baltimore
Planning, design & construction,
vertically integrated.
Vertical is a licensed architecture firm in Baltimore, led by Christina D. Long, AIA. We design for institutional, commercial and residential clients, from the first space program to opening day. Recent work ranges from Stevenson University's 38,000-square-foot Berman Family Performing Arts Center, which opened in March 2026, to the revitalization of a 1980s office park and the renovation of a 1950s house.
One team, start to finish
Vertically integrated, from research to construction
- Research, programming & feasibilitySpace programs, test fits and massing studies that tell an owner what fits, and what it will take.
- DesignConcept through construction documents, for new buildings and renovations of occupied ones.
- Permit & constructionPermit documents, bidding and construction administration, start to finish.
- Existing conditions & BIMMeasured models of existing buildings, and coordinated models of new ones.
- Industrialized constructionA modular approach to design for manufacture and assembly, with advice to teams adopting it.
Selected work
All projects
Performing ArtsBerman Family Performing Arts Center
Stevenson University · Design Architect and Architect of Record · Completed 2026
Higher EducationPhilip A. Zaffere Library Complex
Stevenson University · Design Architect and Space Programmer · Completed 2023 · Photograph: Vivian Marie Doering
Campus LifeMaryland Hillel
College Park · Design Architect · Completed 2025
Higher EducationKahlert Foundation Maker Space
Stevenson University · Design Architect and Architect of Record · Completed 2024
Commercial1980s Office Park Revitalization
Baltimore County · Architect · Schematic design
ResidentialK. Residence
Maryland · Architect · Permitting
Card images are renderings unless credited as photographs.
Experience at previous firms
Before founding Vertical in 2018, Christina D. Long worked on these projects as an employee of the firms named. Each page states her role and the firm.
Current research
The role of the architect in the era of AI-empowered industrialized construction
Current research of the practice explores the role of the architect as buildings are designed with systems-based approaches, manufactured offsite and assembled on site, and as artificial intelligence enters design and delivery.
- Baltimore ModularThe Maryland nonprofit Christina D. Long founded, whose mission is to advance scalable systems-based approaches to addressing housing affordability and economic opportunity in Baltimore and the surrounding region, and to accelerate industrialized construction broadly
- WritingMultiple articles in SCUP’s Planning for Higher Education on technology and the spaces it shapes
- Speaking“The Urban Modular Playbook,” 2026 National Modular Housing Conference, November 17
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AIA · Maryland MBE / DBE / SBE (21-203) · Baltimore City WBE (20-376545) · Maryland SBR · SAM UEI Z63EEHAR9385 · CAGE 12TA6 · NAICS 541310