October 20, 2006

Washington U. in St. Louis Hires Architecture Dean; Embattled Baylor Faculty Member Wins Tenure on Appeal; U. of Iowa Fires Outspoken Lab Director

By EUGENE MCCORMACK, THOMAS BARTLETT and PIPER FOGG

A NEW ADDITION: The chance to expand a program at Washington University in St. Louis turned out to be too good an opportunity for a leading professor of architecture at Auburn University to pass up.

Bruce Lindsey, the Paul Rudolph professor of architecture at Auburn and co-director of the university's renowned Rural Studio, will become dean of Washington's College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in November.

Mr. Lindsey, who holds master's