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Lynda H. Schneekloth

Lynda H. Schneekloth

is Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, and a landscape architect. Since 1983, she has been a partner of The Caucus Partnership, a firm specializing in environmental and organizational change, and has worked with over 200 clients regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Professor Schneekloth's professional work revolves around the issue of placemaking – how people daily transform their world to make it a home. She has worked with community groups in many cities in the US facilitate their placemaking goals; she is a founding member of The Friends of the Buffalo River, an organization devoted to the ecological and cultural restoration of an urban waterway; and co-founder of "Sustainable Futures", an interdisciplinary summer abroad program wherein students live and work at the edge of the rainforest in Costa Rica.

She is author of three books: Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities (1995) with Robert Shibley; Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design (1994), co-edited with Karen Franck, and Changing Places: ReMaking Institutional Buildings (1992) co-edited with Marcia Feuerstein and Barbra Campagna. She is author of many articles, including "The Frontier is our Home", named 1996 best article of the year by the Journal of Architectural Education.