Jennifer Pindyck

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Wellesley College

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Registered Architect (Georgia)

Jennifer Pindyck is an Associate Professor in the Architecture and Interior Architecture Programs at Auburn University, where she serves as Chair of Architecture and Chair of Interior Architecture. Her research and creative work examine how design can foster access to shared space and strengthen social and environmental systems. Her teaching and scholarship are grounded in a methodology of intentional play, risk‑taking and invention, encouraging designers to challenge conventions and imagine new logics of space, gathering and representation.

Pindyck brings extensive experience managing large‑scale projects involving multiple consultants, stakeholders and disciplines. Transdisciplinary design and research, bridging architecture, landscape, education and the social sciences are central to her practice. She has contributed to numerous outreach initiatives and funded projects, including collaborations with Fannie Mae, Wells Fargo, EarlyWorks Children’s Museum and the Housing Assistance Council, advancing community‑centered design and public engagement.

Prior to joining Auburn, Pindyck practiced architecture for two decades and was a founding principal of an Atlanta‑based architecture studio. She previously worked at Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, contributing to projects including the Yale Health Center, Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center and the Princeton Arts and Transit Project. She played a key role in the Gathering Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 65-acre public park centered on the power of play to bring people together, where she contributed to the early design vision and completed the Lodge, Boathouse and Cabana buildings. Her professional work has received multiple accolades, and she has published peer‑reviewed scholarship and presented at national professional conferences.