Clare Lyster

Clare Lyster is an architect, educator, and writer. A native of Ireland, she is now based in Chicago and is a professor at the UIC School of Architecture, where she explores how metabolic and socio-technical systems territorialize the built environment and the implications of this for design. She is the author of Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Cities (Birkhauser, 2016); co-editor of Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan (ACTAR, 2017), and States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (ACTAR, 2021). Clare has exhibited locally at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Chicago History Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and internationally at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2016), the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism (2017), the Venice Biennale (2018 + 2021, with ANNEX), the V+A Museum during the London Design Festival (2018), and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2025).