Rate My Professor Tiffany Lin

Tiffany Lin serves as Favrot V Associate Professor of Architecture and Design and Director of the Design Program at Tulane University's School of Architecture and Built Environment, where she has taught since 2009. In this role, she coordinates core studios, develops beginning design pedagogy, and cultivates future-oriented skills such as creativity, empathy, and self-awareness to emphasize human discernment amid automation and artificial intelligence. Her teaching aligns with her research and practice, focusing on tactility and abstraction as unifiers of human experience. Prior to Tulane, Lin practiced architecture in Boston, co-founding LinOldhamOffice, whose projects earned selection for the Architecture League of New York’s Young Architects Forum and a Progressive Architecture Citation. She taught design studios at Northeastern University and worked at Machado and Silvetti Associates and Leers Weinzapfel Associates. Lin holds a Master of Architecture II from Harvard University, where she received the MArchII Faculty Design Award and C.W. Prize in Housing Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

Lin’s academic interests encompass Foundation Design Pedagogy, Contemporary Formal Analysis, Advanced Drawing, Spatial Analysis through Painting, Thesis Development, Design/Build, and Sustainable Dwelling Prototypes. She recently received the SOM Foundation Research Prize, in collaboration with L. Molix and E. Welty, to examine public spaces, monuments, and memorials through social psychology, aiming to bridge architects and the public while promoting design’s role in healing and balance. Through the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design, she has undertaken architectural visioning for non-profit community partners. Notable projects include the SunShower SSIP House, co-designed with Judith Kinnard, which garnered an AIA New Orleans Honor Award. Additional honors include the Weiss Presidential Fellowship for undergraduate teaching, the William L. Duren Jr. Professorship in 2019 to enhance her Intro to Design and Creative Thinking course, and a 2022 Tulane teaching award for her dedication as an educator. Lin also explores spatial behavior of color via abstract paintings exhibited in Amherst, Cambridge, New York, and New Orleans, serving as an idiom for architectural analysis.