About:

Currently a visiting professor at SAUDLA, Peter Lynch is a former head of the Graduate Architecture Department at The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. A Cooper Union graduate, he worked for Steven Holl Architects after his 1984 graduation. He was named a 2003 "Emerging Voice" by the Architecture League of New York, and in 2005 earned a Rome Prize in Design. His work includes affordable housing, furniture, commercial interiors, and proposals for new methods of masonry and pre-cast construction.

Books:

Peter Lynch; a Cranbrook monograph. Peter Lynch, (Architect);  Meg Webster. Telos Art Pub., 2003.   On Order.

Articles:  (Selected from 1986 to 2004)

"Peter Lynch".  Architectural design, vol. 74, no. 5, pp. [53]-57, Sept 2004.

"Das Schweigen des Materials = The silence of material [interview]."  Frinta, Dagmar.; Lynch, Peter.; Widder, Lynnette.
Daidalos, special issue pp. 84-89, Aug 1995.
    Note:  Lynch and Dagmar Frinta discuss their recent work with Lynnette Widder. (source: Avery Index online)

"Steven Holl [projects]. "  AA files, no. 14, pp. 18-24, Spring 1987. (Available through Inter-Library Loan)

"Oceanfront house, Leucadia, California, 1984."  Architecture and urbanism, no. 8(191), pp. 72-74, Aug 1986.

"House for Mr. and Mrs. B [project], Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, 1984-85."  Architecture and urbanism, no. 8(191), pp. 70-71, Aug 1986.

Web Sites:

Cranbrook Art Museum  www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/lynch.html
This site documents the 2003 exhibition and outdoor installation of experimental architectural structures designed by Lynch when he was the Cranbrook Academy of Art Artist-In-Residence.

NPR    www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4266942
Depicts the emergency bamboo housing designed by Lynch for Tsunami victims in 2005.

Steven Holl   www.stevenholl.com/PT000_1CR.htm
Photograph of the Martha's Vineyard House for which Lynch was the project architect.

architectureMag   www.architecturemag.com/architecture/reports_analysis/design_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001845160
Graphics and text on the Cranbrook Festival Project, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Peter Lynch, Architect, and Harry Giles, Structural Designer. 2006