Gayla Lindt

A UMN M.Arch graduate, Lindt began teaching as an adjunct instructor in fall 2007; she served as BDA program director from 2014-2018, and became director of undergraduate studies beginning summer 2018. Prior to teaching, Lindt had the privilege of organizing (with Jane King Hession) the vast drawing collection of renowned modernist architect Ralph Rapson, FAIA; Rapson’s drawings are destined for the University of Minnesota’s Northwest Architectural Archives and Cranbrook Archives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  She has worked at CityDeskStudio, Inc., at the Design Center for American Urban Landscape (now the Minnesota Design Center), and as a freelance writer, editor and graphic designer. 

She is especially interested in how designers negotiate between—and then simultaneously express—a landscape of seeming opposites.  The designer is an alternator, whose generative production is dependent on dialogs of "between" — between analysis and synthesis, between tangible constructions and intangible constructs, between making and critiquing, between logic and intuition, between a thing and its context.  We construct always and simultaneously space and form, and form and content.  She is also interested in the curious relationship between architects and their words, and how visual thinkers can embrace words to develop a self-awareness about their work.