Lindsey Wikstrom
Contact
lwikstrom@mattaforma.com
Registrations & Certifications
Registered Architect in New York, New Jersey, and Arizona
SOM Fellow
McKim Fellow
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.
Her work has been published in Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Surface, Dezeen, Hypebeast, Faktur, Cite, e-flux, and others.
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; along with 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.
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.
Her work has been published in Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Surface, Dezeen, Hypebeast, Faktur, Cite, e-flux, and others.
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; along with 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.
Architect Lindsey Wikstrom is the founding partner 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.
Recently completed projects include The Nursery at Public Records in Brooklyn, which Hypebeast called “unpolished, unpretentious and provides a thoughtful solution to the typical waste involved in building – and eventually dismantling – urban infrastructure...”
Her work has been published in Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Surface, Dezeen, Hypebeast, Faktur, Cite, e-flux, and others.
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; along with 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. Most recently, the research was exhibited at The New York Skyscraper Museum and University of Texas at Austin.
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.