Hendrika Buelinckx

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Hendrika Buelinckx is a Belgian architect and educator who grew up in Brussels. She later moved to Texas and, after visiting the region, fell in love with the American West. She has written encyclopedic entries, a book, technical reports, and editorial work. She studied at the Higher Institute of Architecture St. Lukas in Brussels and at the Free University of Brussels, and she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Design at UCLA.

Since 1995 she has taught at Texas Tech University College of Architecture, where she led a seminar called Women and the Architecture of the American West (WAoAW). The course explores how women have imagined, designed, built, and theorized the built environment west of the Mississippi. She has won the President’s Excellence in Teaching award and has published widely in English and French on architecture, history, computer-aided design, and European architectural history. She wrote an encyclopedic entry on Brussels for the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, highlighting Brussels’ important role in modern architecture. Her awards include the 1985 Travel Research Award from the National Science Foundation, Belgium; the UCLA Chancellor’s Fellowship (1987–1990); and the Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship (1991).