Lindsay Bremner joins the staff of the Architecture program in the Tyler School of Art, as Chair of Architecture, in August 2006. She was formerly a practicing architect and academic in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she held the position of Chair of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Lindsay has published and lectured widely on the transformation of the South African city since the end of apartheid, after serving in public office in metropolitan government in Johannesburg the 1990’s. Her publications include Thabo Mbeki : The Geography of Exile (Domus 874) , Reframing Township Space (Public Culture 16), Border/Skin (in Against the Wall, ed. Michael Sorkin) and a book, Johannesburg: One City Colliding Worlds. Her work has been key to the shaping of the exhibit on Johannesburg, curated by Ricky Burdett, for the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Lindsay was a Visiting Professor at MIT in 2005, where she taught a graduate level 3 design studio. Her teaching focus is architectural and urban theory and design.