Lizzie MacWillie is an architect, registered Texas and New York, interdisciplinary artist, and urban designer. In 2022, she returned home to Brooklyn after 8 years in Dallas. Lizzie’s design work is driven by her strong relationships and collaborations with community members - her role as a designer is to support residents in achieving their vision for their own community. 

Lizzie is currently the assistant director of the J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at the City College of New York. Before that, Lizzie was a director at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP ([bc]), a nonprofit architecture and planning firm, where she also oversaw the Dallas office. At [bc], projects Lizzie worked on included the community engagement for the City of Dallas’ Cultural Plan; El Sonido del Agua, an arts and advocacy project in the Rio Grande Valley; and design guidelines for Main Street, Millinocket, ME, as part of the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design.

Prior to joining [bc], Lizzie was a part of OMA/AMO in Rotterdam, NL, and a Senior Associate at scalarArchitecture in NY. She received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design and a Master of Design Studies in Art, Design and the Public Domain from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.