Please join the College of Design for the spring 2026 architecture lecture series. 

Elgin Cleckley

Elgin Cleckley, NOMA, is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Undergraduate Program Director. He leads _mpathic design, a multi-award-winning pedagogy, initiative, and professional practice. After studying architecture at the University of Virginia ('93), Fontainebleau School of Visual Arts, and Princeton University ('95), he collaborated with DLR Group (Seattle), MRSA Architects (Chicago), and Baird Sampson Neuert Architects (Toronto) on award-winning civic projects. Elgin was a Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan and has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago. 

Before returning to teach at UVa in 2016, Elgin served as the 3D Group Leader and Design Coordinator at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, within the Science Content and Design Department, and was part of the Agents of Change Initiative from 2001 to 2016. This $47.5 million project produced the world’s first museum and design thinking architectural space—the Weston Family Innovation Centre (WFIC). WFIC featured award-winning architecture in collaboration with Toronto's Diamond + Schmitt Architects, along with exhibitions, educational facilities, and public art, with works by David Rokeby, Michael Awad, Steve Mann, and Stacy Levy receiving several Canadian Association of Science Centres Awards.