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Bruce Lindsey

Bruce Lindsey served as dean of the College and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in WashU’s Sam Fox School from 2006-2017. He was the head of the School of Architecture at Auburn University from 2001-2006 also serving as the co-director of the Rural Studio from 2003-2006. Lindsey was a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 1987-2001. He served as associate head of the School of Architecture from 1994-2001 and held a joint appointment in the School of Art from 1997–2001. In 2016, Lindsey served as the president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. 

Lindsey earned a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture and photography and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art from the University of Utah. 

A licensed architect, Lindsey’s award-winning design practice has spanned 40 years. Lindsey’s work as a crafts person and photographer has spanned 45 years and has been exhibited in national venues such as the American Crafts Museum in New York City, Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, and the Kimball Arts Center in Park City, Utah. 

A native of Idaho, Lindsey is married to artist Marilee Keys. For some time now they have come to believe that the longer they are away from the place where they grew up, the more they feel they are from there… It’s a landscape thing.

Portrait of Bruce Lindsey
Bruce Lindsey
E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration
Academic programs
Master of Architecture
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
Email
blindsey@wustl.edu
Office
Givens 112
Box
1079-131-105

Select Articles, Chapters, and Publications

  • “A Biological Computational Model of Design,” in Cellular Transformations, Ram Dixit and Sung Ho Kim, 2021. Published by Damdi Press.

  • “A Short History of US Environmentalism,” in Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities, 2019. Edited by Mitch Joachim and Maria Alinova. Published by ACTAR.

  • “Architecture School,” in The Three Stages of Architectural Education, 2014, Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim. Published by Damdi Press.

  • “Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio,” in Haystack Reader: Collected Essays on Craft 1991-2009, 2010. Published by University of Maine Press, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Select Exhibitions and Presentations

  • “Access to Architectural Education,” Bruce Lindsey (workshop leader); presented at ACSA Administrators Conference, 2019, New Orleans, La.

  • “Topographic Memory,” Weitman Gallery at Washington University in St. Louis, 2017.

  • “Small Buildings: Built, Unbuilt, Unbuildable,” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Mo., 2015 (co-curator).

Select Awards and Grants

  • 2017 — Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

  • 2015 — Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative, Mellon Foundation, Co-PI

  • 2015 — Center for Heath Design Research, Washington University in St. Louis, PI

  • 2014 — Distinguished Professor Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

  • 2011 — Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Co-PI

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