BACKGROUND of LINDSAY DANIEL ARCHITECTURE, INC:
Lindsay Daniel, known as a long established and widely respected Charlotte, NC architect, decided for 2020 to continue her career under a different type of firm structure and name. She had specialized in single family residential custom new homes, addition/renovations, historic, sustainable, and resort projects. Previously operating as Lindsay Daniel Architecture, Inc, the firm served clients from the mountains to the beaches, Utah, Florida, Cortona, Italy and Madrid, Spain. Going forward she will offer Design Consults only dba Lindsay Daniel Design. Full service projects (thru permit set of plans) will now be referred (if desired) through her alliance of design professionals. Design Consults can continue throughout your project as desired.
Training
Lindsay's expertise is the genesis of more than 40 years serving as a professional in both interior design and architecture. Lindsay held national and state certifications and registrations in both professions (NCIDQ, ASID, NCARB). Her formal training included visual arts studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, two architectural degrees from UNCC, and study classes at Columbia University and Harvard University.
Teaching
Lindsay has contributed to the interior design and building design worlds both through practice and teaching. She lectured and taught in the Department of Architecture at UNCC, and served as a visiting juror at Yale University. Her work experience includes design apprenticeships /internships with distinguished and award-winning design firms along with 30 years in her own firm. Years of continuing education in the specialty of ornamentation for classical and other historic styles explain the firm's notoriety for academic details. Aging-in-Place education has created another focus of her designs.
Awards & Recognition
The recipient of both national and statewide awards in interior design and architecture, Lindsay created work for her clients that earned wide recognition. Her honors include the national Hexter Award 1978 (Honorable Mention for commercial interiors), the 1983 Kamphoefner Study Scholarship and 1984 Thesis Awards for NC architectural students, the C-M Home Builders Association Remodelers Council Best-In-Show three out of 5 years running, NARI Coty Awards, and People’s Choice Awards. Lindsay's work has appeared in Restaurant Design and Interiors magazines, and the book The Interiors Book of Shops and Restaurants, and numerous shelter magazines. Her career was highlighted in The Charlotte Business Journal. For her personal business skills, she was named Charlotte Women Business Owners "Rising Star," finalist for Charlotte-NAWBO's Woman Business Owner of the Year, and 2006 Charlotte Business Journal's Women In Business Achievement Awards.
Special Interests and Service
Lindsay gave her time and talents to the preservation of our cultural heritage. She served six years on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission as Chairman of the Design Review Committee and later as Commission Chairman, where her board's efforts helped increase the bond fund from $1.5M to $9M. She sat on the UNCC College of Architecture Board of Advisors and CPCC Architectural Technology Program Advisory Committee. She presently is a member of Women Executives and for that board served 3 years as Mentor Chair for the WINGS scholar program.
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