TSOA Lecture Series - Lindsey Wikstrom: Care is Choreography

Architect Lindsey Wikstrom walks through Mattaforma commissions and her book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures to explore what it means to be sustainable, resourceful, and design with time in mind.
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Biography
Architect Lindsey Wikstrom is the Founding Principal of Mattaforma. Her forward-thinking work weaves together ideas of care, ecosystems, and the positive influence that design can have in society. Drawing on environmental relationships and an embrace of temporality, her approach to design, academic leadership, research, and writing, expands the way materiality and form can benefit more people than traditionally imagined, reduce carbon emissions, improve biodiversity, and create new ways for people to connect with each other and to nature. Intertwined with built work, Lindsey speaks publicly, publishes, and exhibits her research. Most notably her acclaimed book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (2023), published by Routledge, with foreword by Kenneth Frampton, was included in Architect’s Newspaper “the best architecture-related books published in 2023” and Architectural Record’s “Editors Round Up Notable Books of 2023.” Beyond the book, her research extends to include opinion pieces and scientific articles regarding the trajectory of forestry and biogenic materials for urban use. She was also the organizer and moderator of Material Worlds, a speaker series hosted by MoMA's Emilio Ambasz Institute which invited experts from around the world to envision the future of the most ubiquitous materials on earth. Lindsey has taught at Columbia GSAPP, Cornell AAP, Syracuse University, and Yale School of Architecture. She holds an M.Arch from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Charles McKim Prize, Visualization Award, and Avery 6 Award. Lindsey is also the recipient of the SOM Prize.