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TEAM
Lindsey Wikstrom
Founding Principal
Lindsey Wikstrom is an award-winning architect, known for advancing regenerative approaches to design, with a focus on material innovation, biodiversity, and wellbeing. As the Founding Principal of Mattaforma, and through both her studio and her scholarship, Lindsey advances the idea that architecture can be a choreography of care: designing not only for buildings, but for the interconnected flourishing of communities, landscapes, and planetary systems.
Lindsey is the recipient of the 2026 National Design Award for Emerging Designer from Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
She is the author of Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (Routledge, 2023), a book that situates architecture within living forest systems and argues for more just and ecological building practices. She has contributed essays to Domus, Architect's Newspaper and other publications, and joins conversations with other global leaders in design and ecology, including Prada's Possible Conversations and MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute.
Lindsey has led graduate-level architecture studios at Columbia GSAPP, Yale, Cornell, and Syracuse, and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. She is also a frequent public speaker, presenting at conferences, universities, and cultural institutions on topics ranging from mass timber futures to ecological urbanism.
Recognition
Notable Speaking Engagements
Prototypes: Architecture Practices Symposium at Syracuse Architecture
Barnard College Department of Architecture
The School of Architecture
University of Arizona
Yale Planet in Crisis Symposium
Azure Human/Nature Conference
Architalx
The Architectural League of New York
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
University of Texas at Austin
Canadian Wood Solutions Conference
Chicago Biennale
Yale School of Architecture
University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture Fitch Colloquium, Columbia GSAPP
Cooper Union
University of Arizona
Texas A&M, School of Architecture
Parsons School of Design
Center for Architecture
Cornell University
Harvard GSD
University of Oregon
International Mass Timber Conference
AIA Arizona
New York State Green Building Conference
Syracuse University
Roots Collaborative
Tallinn Biennale & e-flux
TUBerlin, Germany
sbe22 Berlin D-A-CH conference
Prada Possible Conversations
University of Miami