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.

Landscape photo of a dense bank of rainclouds taking up 2/3 of the image, over a sandy plain climbing to foothills in the distance.

Paradise Valley, MT, 2013

Small vertical sculpture with a weighted pendulum suspended from a glass disc over an aluminum base.

Candle 300

Black and white photo of an elaborately detailed niche in a classical building facade.

Niche Project

A perspective photograph of a brick building along the street with a steel double façade on the upper level, cantilevered over a ramp way.

Pittsburgh Glass Center

An interior photograph showing a wood and white drywall contrast underneath a skylight which is situated over a stairwell. There is shelving with various hats displayed.

Society for Contemporary Craft

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

2024 — The Engaged City, Mellon Foundation, Co-PI
2024 — William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award, Washington University in St. Louis
2017 — Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
2015 — Divided City: An Urban Humanities Initiative, Mellon Foundation, Co-PI
2014 — Distinguished Professor Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Bruce Lindsey

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