Lindsay Hu 胡力臻
Lindsay Hu (胡力臻) is a candidate for the Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program at MIT, due to graduate in 2027.
Prior to joining MIT, Lindsay completed a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Duke University. Currently, she’s thinking about impending change - societal and climatic - in tropical cities. She’s hopeful that design decisions in the built environment can contribute to lower energy consumption and resilience against extreme weather.
Beyond design and engineering, she enjoys exploring the art of storytelling across a variety of mediums.
Lindsay grew up in Taipei and Hong Kong.
Projects
Thermal-Tectonics was an international workshop led by graduate students Lindsay Hu (MIT MArch), and Joseph Henry Kennedy Jr. (Harvard DDes), and Zhi-Ray Wang (MIT SMArchS & SMEECS), in collaboration with National Cheng Kung University. The team led 32 architecture students to draw inspiration from informal enclosures and microclimate strategies found on-site and design modular, adaptable, and thermally efficient retrofit systems—a “kit of parts” applicable across housing types. Through on-site surveying, hands-on making, & design research, students examined the intersections of materials, building envelopes, and everyday life, amid rapid urban shifts driven by the expansion of the semiconductor industry in southern Taiwan.
Publications
Towards Cost-effective Savings: Learnings from non-invasive occupant-centric control in an office building
Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation, and Energy Consumption
2026
