Brief Biography

Peter Lynch is Architect-in-Residence and Head of the Architecture Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA. He graduated from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union in 1984. From 1984 to 1990 he worked at Steven Holl Architects, New York, where he was project architect for the Berlin AGB library proposal, the Venice Palazzo del Cinema competition entry, "Edge of City" urban proposals, the Martha's Vineyard Residence, and numerous other projects. Since 1991 he has practiced architecture privately, in New York, Providence, and now in Bloomfield Hills. His work includes affordable housing for Detroit; furniture for the musician Lou Reed; commercial interiors in New York; competition entries for Copenhagen, Tallinn, and Prague; and proposals for new methods of masonry and pre-cast construction. In 1997 he received an AIA/AAF Grant and a State of Michigan "New Directions" Grant for research into new housing types and construction methods. With the poet Richard Lomuto he received a 1988 New York State Council for the Arts Award for the collaborative project "Working Within Doubt."

"El Escritorio de Lou Reed". Nuevo Estilio 198 (September 1994): 50.
Lynnette Widder and Peter Lynch (interview). "The Silence of Material." Daidalos 56 (sonderheft/special issue, August 1995): 84-89.
Peter Lynch. "Quasi-Historical Development of Urban Districts." Proceedings of the ACSA Urban Conference 1995 (Washington DC: ACSA, 1995):
Peter Lynch. "Escenarios en los edificios." bau 015 (primer semestre 1997): 32-39.
Peter Lynch. "Photographic Work of the Cranbrook Architecture Studio." Daidalos 66 (December 1997): 126-129.

plynch@art.cranbrook.edu