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The nationally recognized and award winning firm of Brininstool + Lynch brings an identifiable aesthetic to diverse cultural, commercial, institutional, and residential buildings across North America. Each project interprets a client’s vision while embodying the clarity and purpose that marks the firm’s architecture.

Brininstool + Lynch design buildings with a respect for materials, site locations and adjacent environments. Immediately recognizable in the firm’s work is an eye for detail, the juxtaposition of organic and artificial materials, and the exploration of translucency and light. When incorporated with green technologies and sustainable building practices, these explorations result in surroundings that inspire—spaces that elevate the ordinary and positively impact how people experience them.

2008 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2008 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

2007 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2006 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

2005 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2005 Divine Detail Award from the AIA Chicago.

2004 Sustainable Design Award from the AIA Chicago.

2003 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2003 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

2003 “Emerging Voices.” The Architectural League of New York.

2002 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum—Museum of Architecture and Design.

2002 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

2001 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2001 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

2001 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

2001 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.
   
1999 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

1996 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

1995 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

1994 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

1994 Interior Architecture Award from the AIA Chicago.

1993 Chicago Villa Award from the Chicago Athenaeum—Museum of Architecture and Design.

1992 Distinguished Building Award from the AIA Chicago.

“Dwelling, Eating, Cooking”.  2008.  Colegio de Arquitectos, Barcelona, Spain.

“Brininstool + Lynch: Claremont House.”  January 28 – February 29, 2008.  Syracuse University School of Architecture Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse, New York.

“Engineering an Empire: Designing the City of the Future.” June 8 – October 7, 2007. The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

“10th Architecture Venice Biennale: U.S. National Participant. After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground.”  September 10 – November 19, 2006. National Pavilion at the Giardini, Venice, Italy.

 “Visionary Chicago Architecture: Fourteen Inspired Concepts for the Third Millennia,” November 15, 2005 – January 5, 2006. Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.

“GSA Design Excellence Exhibition”, January 27 – May 2, 2005.  The Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.

“Brininstool + Lynch: Process,” December 10, 2004 – January 29, 2005.  I space.  The Chicago Gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Illinois.

“Road Trip: Racine Art Museum,” Fall 2004. The Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.

 “Invisible City, Planning for Chicago’s Future”. March 6 – April 27, 2003. Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Monographs:
Barreneche, Raul A. Brininstool + Lynch, Building on Modernism. New York: Edizioni Press, 2002.

Ojeda, Oscar Riera. Brininstool + Lynch. Buenos Aires: Casas Internacional, 2000.

Books:
Asensio, Paco. Mountain Houses. Barcelona: Loft Publications, 2000.

Bahamon, Alejandro, and Maria Camila Sanjines.  Alta Densidad: Vivienda Contemporanea.  Barcelona: Parramon, 2008.

Clagett, Leslie Plummer. The New City Home. Newtown, CT: The Tauton Press, 2002.

Galindo, Michelle. Chicago Architecture & Design. Berlin/New York: teNeues, 2005.

Gorlin, Alexander. Creating the New American Townhouse. New York: Rizzoli, 2005.

Gorlin, Alexander. The New American Townhouse. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.
Ojeda, Oscar Riera. The Best of American Houses. Buenos Aires: Kliczkowski, 2001.

Martin, William, and Stanley Tigerman. Visionary Chicago Architecture. Chicago: Chicago Area Central Committee, 2004.

Thorne, Martha, and John Zukowsky. Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, and Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.