“Our Great Great Wall” is an exhibit designed by Jennifer Park and her team of IIT students. The project imagines walls as sites of collectivity and congregation rather than tension and segregation.

Brininstool + Lynch caps its thirtieth anniversary as winner of AIA Chicago’s 2019 Firm of the Year Award. The accolade recognizes “outstanding achievements and excellence in the body of work produced by a firm over a period of time, and the ongoing contributions of the firm to the advancement of the architectural profession.”

Jennifer Park, Brininstool + Lynch’s newest Principal, is the winner of AIA Chicago’s 2019 Dubin Family Young Architect Award. Until recently, the head of award-winning Jurassic Studio, this honor acknowledges Park’s diverse professional contributions, including as a member of the exhibit design team for the Obama Presidential Center.

Brad will be lecturing for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University in Columbus on Tuesday, October 15.

Today marks the official launch of our new book, Brininstool + Lynch: Making Architecture. The monograph, according to the publisher Monacelli Press, represents “An alluring overview to the thirty-year, award-wining output of Brininstool + Lynch, whose rigor, vision, and elegance has distinguished their diverse projects since its founding.”

We want to thank everyone who helped us celebrate our thirty years at Lincoln Hall! You can find photos from the party here.

Brininstool + Lynch has appointed four new Principals, including one strategic hire from outside the firm, Jennifer Park. In addition, they have promoted two new Associate Principals, and two new Associates from within the firm. These appointments are part of the firm’s long-term business plan and take effect October 1, 2019.

Join partners David Brininstool and Brad Lynch on October 7 at 6:00 pm in Gand Lecture Hall as they discuss the projects featured in our new book, “Making Architecture." Enjoy refreshments, a book signing and an opportunity to speak personally with the architects and IIT’s new dean of architecture, Reed Kroloff, after the talk.

As part of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Brininstool + Lynch is collaborating with Creative Grounds Process(ing) Transformation, an initiative led by Borderless Studio, on an exhibition at the Anthony Overton Elementary School in Bronzeville. Our exhibit, entitled "The Journey," is inspired by the Great Migration.