Profile

Practice

Stephanie Lin is an award-winning designer, artist, and educator based in New York. She is the founder of Stephanie Lin / Present Forms, a practice exploring artistic and architectural forms of expression within material culture. Through immersive environments, objects, and furniture, her work engages ephemeral materialities to reveal embedded cultural narratives and hidden orders.

Notable projects include Taffy, one of three large-scale art installations constructed for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2025, which will be relocated to the Palm Desert Civic Center Park in 2026. Lin is also a member of Office III design collective, one of five finalists in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in 2017. Office III completed the Governors Island Welcome Center in New York, NY that same year.

Lin’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY), The National Academy of Design (New York, NY), Luminaire Showroom (Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY), A+D Architecture and Design Museum (Los Angeles, CA), cneai= (Paris, France), and several universities. Her practice and teaching have been featured in publications including Metropolis Magazine, Hospitality Design Magazine, Dezeen, The Architect’s Newspaper, ArchDaily, Cultured Magazine, Flaunt, and Domus.


Pedagogy

As the former Dean of The School of Architecture / TSOA from 2021–2026, Stephanie has promoted the exploration of material knowledge, process, and experimentation across diverse social and environmental contexts. Leading the school through its transformative years at the historic campuses of Arcosanti and Cattle Track Arts Compound, and initiating new partnerships with the Taliesin Institute, Lin has strongly integrated internal community- and external partnership-building into her academic leadership. In 2023, she was named the recipient of the AIA AZ Design Pedagogy Award for her teaching at TSOA.


Lin has led design studios and seminars at The Cooper Union School of Architecture, UC Berkeley, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University GSAPP and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt GA/LA/UD. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture I with Advanced Placement from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.