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Brininstool + Lynch is closing after 34 years, ParkFowler Plus emerges

2023-02-22T18:38:00-05:00

The Chicago-based firm formerly known as Brininstool + Lynch has announced it is disbanding after being a mainstay on the city's architectural scene for 34 years.

“While our hearts are heavy, we believe that there can be no Brininstool + Lynch without Lynch,” part of a statement from founding partner David Brininstool reads. “Over the past months, we began a deliberate, thoughtful transition process with the intention of saying an emotional goodbye to Brininstool + Lynch. This is not a farewell. We know that the best way to honor what came before is to invent what comes after. And we know that the legacy of this important firm will continue to reverberate — in memories and conversations, in pedagogy and publications, and, most important, in buildings that have reshaped the landscape in Chicago and beyond.”

The firm lost its co-founder, Brininstool’s former Pappageorge Haymes collea...

Acclaimed Chicago architect Brad Lynch, of Brininstool + Lynch, passes away at 64

2022-09-28T19:08:00-04:00

A beloved figure in Chicago’s architecture community is being mourned this week after the news that Brininstool + Lynch founder Brad Lynch passed away on Monday at the age of 64.

Lynch was known as the designer of seminal works throughout the Midwest region, including the Racine Art Museum, award-winning BARDAVID at the University of Chicago’s new David Rubenstein Forum, and multiple residential projects across his adopted home city.

Mariposa House, Malibu CA, by Brininstool + Lynch. Photo by Christopher Barrett

A model of Lynch's design for the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Image: Christopher Barrett/Hedrich Blessing

“I got to know Brad when he joined Archinect's ski trip in 2020, right before the pandemic hit. I had long been a fan of his design work, and quickly became a fan of him as a person,” Archinect founder Paul Petrunia remembered. “He was so kind and gracious with the group. He exuded excitement whenever talking about architecture and art, and was eager to show us the stu...