Lauren Scott

Visiting Assistant Professor

lasb25@lehigh.edu

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Education:

M.Arch, Columbia University GSAPP 2021

B.S.Arch, University of Virginia SoA 2016

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Focus Areas

Architecture

Personal Statement

My work looks for design opportunities in the gaps between permanent states of architecture: spaces and moments that are often overlooked, but available for flexible, community-involved intervention. I develop deployable, low-barrier systems that shelter people and invite communities to engage in space-making.

Biography

Lauren Scott is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University's Department of Architecture, where she previously served as a Small Cities Lab Research Scholar. She grew up outside Philadelphia, spent the past decade in New York City, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Lauren holds an M.Arch from Columbia University GSAPP and a B.S.Arch from the University of Virginia, and has been a Registered Architect in New York State since 2022. She founded Lauren Scott Architecture PLLC in 2023 and then, alongside Christina Zhang, co-founded Soft Interference Collective, a practice centered on participatory, reversible interventions in the built environment.

Lauren’s research develops adaptable, participatory architectural systems that address urgent needs while generating authentic place and people-based evidence that shapes longer-term public investment. Her study focuses on soft intervention - reversible reuse of existing built environment infrastructure, which invites communities into the act of building and space-making. Recent work includes Porch Weather, a deployable cooling structure built with students to inform the City of Allentown, PA's Climate Action Plan, and Soil in Our Hands, a rammed-earth community kitchen that won the 2025 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. She taught at Syracuse University School of Architecture from 2023 to 2025 before joining Lehigh.