Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
she/her/hers
Contact
School of Architecture
Office: Lee 2 - 143
Website: https://lyndseydeaton.com/
Email: ldeaton@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Oregon (2021); M. Building Science Construction, Auburn University (2011); B.S. Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology (2007)
Courses
Architectural Programming and Pre-Design (ARCH 4880/6880); Health Facilities Planning and Design Seminar (ARCH 8860); Graduate Studio in Architecture + Health (ARCH 8950/8970); Graduate Architecture Studio: Selected Topics (ARCH 8960)
Research Interests
spatial equity, urban design, community health, environmental design, displacement & gentrification
Lyndsey Deaton, PhD, RA, AICP, PMP, LEED GA is a licensed architect and certified planner with projects across the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Clemson University where she teaches and conducts research in the Architecture + Health Graduate Program. She is s Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR). Her work investigates and challenges concepts of health across a wide range of venues from the design of healthcare facilities to the role of equitable planning participation in community health. She is currently working on two original studies: a Post Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit for Milieu Space in Children's Behavioral Health Facilities with the University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the study, Gentrification's Effects on Children's Active Mobility in Greenville, SC. In the past 15 years, she has worked on 30+ architecture projects and 80+ master/urban planning projects. Her designs have been featured in Architect Magazine (2011) and received 23 awards including the American Planning Association Federal Planning Division Honor Award for Collaborative Planning on NASA Kennedy Space Center Vision Plan and Programmatic Environmental Assessment (2022), the Lafarge Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction (2012), the American Planning Association’s Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project (2016), the Mayor’s Choice Award, City of Eugene (2017). She currently practices as a Senior Architect and Planner with The Urban Collaborative and as a Deputy Program Manager for USAID Projects with The International Development Collaborative. The Georgia Tech Alumni Association named Dr. Deaton one of 40 under 40 for “significant contributions in their field at an early age.” Dr. Deaton is focused on the role of urban design in impacting community health, especially for vulnerable groups. In 2021, the University of Oregon awarded her a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture for No Place to Play? Studies of How Adolescents Use Public Space in Dispossessed Communities (book forthcoming). Her research has earned the Creativity Professorship (2023), the Informal Urbanism Fellowship with the University of Melbourne (2022), the Julie and Roxy Dixon Fellowship (2017), and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (2019). As a peer-reviewed measure of significance, her dissertation work with adolescents received the Environmental Design Research Association’s Great Places Award for Research (2021) and the Architecture Research Center’s Consortium King Medal for Research Excellence (2020). Her most recent publications include the chapters “Dispossession, Adolescence, and the Missing Public Spaces of Hyderabad, India” in The Routledge Handbook of Diverse Childhoods and the Environmental Experience (2023) and “The Hidden Public Spaces of Dispossessed Communities: Adolescents’ Perspectives from Manila, Philippines” in Growing Up in Cities of the Twenty-First Century: A Global Study with Young People and Their Urban Environment (Exp. 2024).
Professional/Research Links
https://lyndseydeaton.com/cv/
Awards
Creativity Professorship 2023-2025; Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 23rd Annual Great Places Awards; Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC): 2020 King Student Medal for Excellence in Architecture + Environmental Design Research
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Freedmen’s Town versus Frenchtown: A Spatial History of Black Settlements in Houston, TX,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2020.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Rise of the Humanitarian Planning Committee,” in Interplan Spring 2020.
Murphey, J. & Deaton, L. “Historic Preservation with the Mission Through Installation Master Planning,” in Public Works Digest JAN/FEB/MAR 2018 Vol XXX, No. 1.
Gillem, Mark and Lyndsey Deaton. “New Traditions of Placemaking in Central-West Africa,” in Whose Tradition? Ed. AlSayyad, Nezar, Mark Gillem, and David Moffat. London: Routlegde, 2017.
Gillem, Mark and Lyndsey Pruitt. “Security, Surveillance and the New Landscapes of Migration,” in Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration. Ed. Mirjana Lozanovska. London: Routledge, 2016.
Pruitt, Lyndsey N. & Andrea W. Kuhn. “A Hands-On Training Approach to Sustainable Planning: Master Planning Energy and Sustainability,” in Public Works Digest OCT/NOV/DEC 2015 Vol XXVII, No.4.
Pruitt, Lyndsey N. “The Enterprise Approach to Design and Construction of High-Performance Sustainable Buildings,” in Public Works Digest APR/MAY/JUN 2013 Vol XXV, No.2: 29-30.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Accepted or Submitted)
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Dispossession, Adolescence, and the Missing Public Spaces of Hyderabad, India,“ in The Routledge Handbook of Diverse Childhoods and the Environmental Experience. Eds. Kate Bishop and Katina Dimoulias. Under Contract, Routledge (Exp. Spring 2023).
Deaton, Lyndsey and Miller, James. “How Architectural Adaptations show Resistance to Assimilation,” in Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Spring 2023
Reviews & Interviews
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Review of Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions by Peter Bosselmann,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review Spring 2023.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island,” by Eds. Lynne Horiuchi and Tanu Sankalia,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2019.
Conference Presentations (Delivered)
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Disruption of Adolescents’ “Public” Spaces: How resettlement architecture reconfigures access and quality in the built environmental,” presented at the Environmental Design Research Association at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City: 2023.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Accessible Public Space: Spatializing Adolescent Girls’ Fears on the Urban Fringe of Hyderabad, India,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium at Texas Tech University in Dallas: 2023
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Disruption of Adolescents’ “Public” Spaces: How resettlement architecture reconfigures access and quality in the built environmental,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at National University of Singapore in Singapore: 2022.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Value of Children’s Access to Safe Public Space: Building urban children’s resilience against the shocks and threats of resettlement in Manila, Philippines,” in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Gothenburg, Sweden: 2020
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Everyday Gathering in the Tech City: How the tradition of chai usurps the neoliberal patterns of the IT campus typology in Hyderabad, India,” presented at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociological of Urban and Regional Development, New Delhi, India: 2019
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Neoliberal Subjectivities: Identity Formation and the Significance of Place,” presented at the Environmental Design Research Association at NYU in Brooklyn: 2019
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Neoliberal Landscape of Hyderabad, India: How architectural transformations in the tech city challenge tradition and identity,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at University of Coimbra in Coimbra: 2018.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “American Tiny-House Villages: Challenging neoliberalism,” presented at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs: 2018.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Creating Community: Housing insecurity & the tiny-house village model,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium-European Association for Architectural Education at Tempe University/Drexel University in Pittsburg: 2018.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Social Traditions and the Built Form: The tiny-house village model for chronically homeless Americans,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at Kuwait University in Kuwait: 2016.
