Clare Lyster
Assistant Professor
clyster@uic.edu
MArch, Yale University
BArch, University College Dublin
Clare Lyster is an architect, writer and educator and founding principal of CLUAA, a research and design firm in Chicago that explores the design of space at the intersection of architecture, landscape and infrastructure. CLUAA has exhibited at The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Historical Museum and at Newman House, University College Dublin. Clare has been awarded grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, UIC College of Art and Architecture and The Graham Foundation. She is editor of Envisioning the Bloomingdale: 5 Concepts (Chicago Architecture Club, August 2009) and 306090 vol. 09 Regarding Public Space, with Cecilia Benites (Princeton Architectural Press, August 2005). Current projects include Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan, a design and research initiative for the Great Lakes (with Charles Waldheim and Mason White), and work toward a publication exploring architecture through the network topologies of Post-Fordist space. At UIC she teaches seminars and studios on landscape, infrastructure and globalization, examining how these broader disciplines are positioned in architectural theory and design practice. She has also taught at Syracuse University and the University of Toronto.
