Dyer Alfred Lindsay (Lindsay) Falck, former lecturer and department of architecture associate chair in the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, died at his St. Marks Square home in Philadelphia on May 18 of kidney failure. He was 86.

Born in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, Mr. Falck spent his early years at the mining outpost of Koegas. He attended boarding school starting at the age of 5, first St. John’s College in Johannesburg and then St. Andrew’s College in Grahamstown, graduating in 1950. Mr. Falck earned his bachelor of architecture in 1956 from the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town (UCT). While at UCT, he won the school’s Helen Gardner Travel Prize.

Mr. Falck went to work for Thornton-White as an assistant (later senior assistant) preparing working drawings for the new School of Architecture building (the Centlivres Building) for the UCT campus. Mr. Falck then became one of the first employees of Revel Fox, a leading modern architect of South Africa. He left Mr. Fox’s firm, Revel Fox and Partners, temporarily, then returned as chief assistant, becoming a partner in 1965. Four of his projects with Revel Fox received Bronze Medal Awards for Design Excellence from the Cape Provincial Institute of Architects. In 1966, Mr. Falck received a Ford Foundation Travel Grant through the Institute of International Education’s Young Artists Programme, and he traveled through the US and Europe, visiting architects’ offices. He completed his master’s thesis, “Technology and Urban Form, Chicago 1830-1972,” in 1972.

During this time, Mr. Falck also began teaching at UCT, first as a part-time lecturer. After leaving Revel Fox and Partners in 1968, he became a full-time associate professor at UCT. He received UCT’s Distinguished Teacher Award in 1983. From 1968 to 1985, he also maintained an independent practice.

In 1983, Mr. Falck became a visiting critic for University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Fine Arts. He split time between UCT and Penn for several years before moving to Philadelphia in 1986 and becoming a full-time lecturer at Penn. He served as associate chair for the department of architecture from 1986 to 1995, and as assistant dean for facilities planning from 1995 to 2003. For 29 years, he also taught part-time at Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design as an adjunct professor.

Mr. Falck taught across Penn’s programs in architecture, landscape architecture and historic preservation. He received Penn’s G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching twice (Almanac May 10, 2005 and May 7, 2013). Mr. Falck also designed the silhouette of the Addams Family outside of Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall (Almanac October 15, 2019). Mr. Falck retired from full-time teaching at Penn in June 2018 but continued teaching part-time until March 2020.

Professional collaborations with Professor Frank Matero and Penn’s Architectural Conservation Laboratory included the design and construction of a series of dig-shelters and viewing platforms in support of archaeological excavations at Çatalhöyük and Gordion in Turkey, and for sites at Chiripa, Bolivia, and Angkor Wat, Cambodia. For the Aga-Khan Trust, Mr. Falck brought his expertise in building technology to the conservation of a series of 125 houses and other structures in the historic Aslam Mosque neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. At the former 1964 World’s Fair site in Flushing Meadows, New York, he designed and developed a method to safely extract the terrazzo mosaic components of the “Texaco Road Map” art pavement of the New York State Pavilion for conservation.

Mr. Falck is survived by his wife, Karen; their children, Ailsa and Toren; his children with his first wife (Rose), Carl, Kevin, Ingrid and Alan; and nine grandchildren.

Memorial gifts are currently being accepted to establish the Lindsay Falck Fellowship Fund at the Weitzman School. Those interested in contributing to the Fund may do so through the Weitzman School Annual Special Projects Fund—please mark your gift “in memory of Lindsay Falck;” see https://leadbydesign.org/give