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Lindsey Krug

  • Assistant Professor, Architecture

Education

  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • MArch, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Biography

Lindsey Krug is a designer and educator based between Chicago and Milwaukee, where she is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Krug’s research interrogates architecture as a cultural, legal, and institutional apparatus. The built environment not only reflects social norms but actively produces and enforces them. She examines how design naturalizes taboos, hierarchies, and inequities, embedding political and social assumptions into material form. Broadly, her scholarship is concerned with the architectural manifestations and myths of contemporary institutions shaped by American democracy and capitalism. Two recurring sites of inquiry are the United States Supreme Court, examined through questions of precedent, the right to privacy, and bodily autonomy; and the Dollar General Corporation, whose small-box retail empire serves as a lens through which to study logistics, extraction, and the architectural generic. Krug has contributed to interdisciplinary investigations documenting human rights abuses against protesters during the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine; mapping ongoing and projected climate risks associated with melting permafrost in Russia; and analyzing relationships between gender and architectural typology. Additional topics of interest include the architectural environments of reality television and their militaristic origins, gerrymandering and the speculative futures of shuttered American shopping malls, and the architectural implications of the UK Supreme Court ruling in Fearn v Tate Gallery (2023).

Krug’s writing is published in MONU, DISC, STOÀ, Pidgin, Paprika, and in the 2025 Routledge volume Public Interiority: Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm, edited by Liz Teston. Her design research project, “Corpus Comunis: Precedent, Privacy, and the United States Supreme Court, in Seven Architectural Case Studies,” received the 2023 Best Peer-Reviewed Research Project Award from the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors. She was a recipient of the 2022 ACSA and Columbia University Buell Center Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society; the 2023 Architectural League Prize from the Architectural League of New York; the 2024 ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award; and the 2024 Rotch Traveling Fellowship.

Krug teaches both undergraduate and graduate students in courses across SARUP’s curriculum, ranging from beginning design studios and representation lectures to advanced elective studios. Beyond her teaching at UWM, Krug has taught summer design studios at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Architectural Association in London. Her pedagogy emphasizes research-driven design, critical reading of institutions, and the capacity of architecture to operate simultaneously as cultural critique and material practice. In parallel with her academic research, Krug is a co-founder of Third Party Projects, a small design practice committed to delivering architecture that is at once playful and pragmatic.

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Recent & Selected Works

Split image of exhibition: left shows white gallery with models and portraits; right shows gray facade with circular window revealing a small interior room.
“Supreme Privacy,” Exhibition at the Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture and Urbanism, Milwaukee, WI, 2022.
Overhead view of yellow and white geometric outdoor installation casting patterned shadows beside a tall building in an autumn landscape.
“Overstory,” Pavilion constructed for the 2024 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, Chicago, IL, 2024. Collaboration with Andres Camacho and Bradley Silling.
Dense collage of miniature buildings, roads, tracks, and structures in yellow-green tones, forming a complex, layered urban model scene.
“Miracle on Main Street,” Published in Paprika! Vol.9 Fables, New Haven, CT, 2023. Collaboration with Sarah Aziz.
Axonometric architectural drawing showing multi-level interior with stairs, rooms, and detailed structural layout in light gray lines.
“Supreme Privacy, no. 30,” Funded research, Mellowes Masters Research Assistantship, 2024. Collaboration with Elisabet Jatmiko.
Interior architectural rendering of a bright space with teal walls, exposed ceiling beams, and a long yellow display table centered in the room.
“Long Lab,” Design-build work for the SARUP Fabrication Lab, 2025-26. Collaboration with Andres Camacho and Bradley Silling.
Close-up of a yellow wood display table with a grid of circular cutouts fitted with gray rings on the top surface.
“Long Lab Retail Cart,” Design-build work for the SARUP Fabrication Lab, 2025-26. Collaboration with Andres Camacho and Bradley Silling.

Articles & Selected Papers

  • Krug, Lindsey, and Sam Schuermann. “Fair Fights: Gerrymandering, Malls, and Boundary-Driven Conflict in Milwaukee.” MONU #37, Delft, Netherlands, 2024. https://www.monu-magazine.com/issues.htm
  • Krug, Lindsey. “Reality TV Reconnaissance: Architectural Tactics and Tactical Architectures of Candid Camera, Love is Blind, and The Rehearsal.” DISC Vol. 3, 2024.

Artistic Exhibitions & Artwork

Krug, Lindsey, and Sarah Aziz. Doll(ar)house Dreams. June 13, 2023-ongoing, Architectural League of New York, online. https://archleague.org/article/sarah-aziz-and-lindsey-krug-dollarhouse-dreams/

Awards

  • Rotch Scholar, 2024. Awarded by the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) and Rotch Scholarship Committee. Annual two-stage design competition, winning proposal awarded a $40,000 grant to support research travel.
  • New Faculty Teaching Award, 2024. Awarded by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
  • Architectural League Prize, 2023. Awarded by the Architectural League of New York. Co-recipient with Sarah Aziz.
  • ACSA Best Peer-Reviewed Project Award, 2023. Awarded by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors. Recognition for conference contribution “Corpus Comunis: precedent, privacy, and the United States Supreme Court, in seven architectural case studies.”
  • Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society, 2022. Awarded by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Columbia University Temple Hoyne Buell Center. Recognition for "Mono-Poly-Dollar"

Built Works

Krug, Lindsey, Andres Camacho, and Brad Silling. Overstory. 2025. Sinai Hospital, Chicago, IL.

Chapters

Krug, Lindsey. “Supreme Privacy: Seven Public Interiorities” Public Interiority, edited by Liz Teston, Karin Tehve, Ladi'Sasha Jones, and Amy Campos, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.