Francis Lyn is Associate Director for the School of Architecture, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University. He has also served as the Director of MetroLab Collaborative at FAU, Faculty Councilor and Gulf Regional Director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and Chair of the Education Committee for the ACSA. 

His architectural work has received national recognition and has been included in national and international exhibitions.  Premiated projects include a courthouse for Williamsburg Virginia, which was commissioned and executed after an international competition (in collaboration with Jorge L. Hernandez). 

As Director of the MetroLab Collaborative at FAU, his work addressing community engagement in architectural education focused on the delineation, articulation and design of public place and space within contemporary spatial, social, cultural and environmental contexts.  This work was work was made possible through the procurement of grants and contracts valued at over $100,000.  

His research is situated at the intersection of tradition and modernity.  He has investigated early 20th century Scandinavian modernism, with a specific focus on the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund.  He has also published papers on the interface of analog and digital representational strategies in architecture. His current research extends this engagement of tradition and modernity into the area of pedagogy.  Utilizing archival material in the Dan Duckham Collection, housed in the FAU School of Architecture, this work investigates ways in which archival material might be used as teaching and generative design tools.

Francis Lyn completed his graduate work at Princeton University and his undergraduate work at the University of Miami.