Earl Flansburgh

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Earl R. Flansburgh is an architect known for his extensive work in the Boston area.

Flansburgh graduated from the Cornell Architecture School in 1953, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

In 1963, he formed his own architecture firm in Boston, Massachusetts. His more than forty years of practice encompass projects ranging from a hi-tech teaching facility for software engineering to a U.S. Consulate in Turkey. While specializing in the planning and design of educational facilities, Flansburgh has completed over two hundred K-12 public, private, and charter schools, and colleges and university projects throughout New England, the United States, and the Middle East. In January of 1969, "Progressive Architecture" selected Flansburgh's underground Cornell Campus Store for one of its sixteen Annual Design Awards.^[1]

Flansburgh has written numerous articles on the design and construction of school and university buildings, with a particular focus on lecture hall design and on strategies for constructing buildings faster, better and more economically. He has served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley College, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London).

Since 1972, Flansburgh has served on the Board of Trustees at Cornell University. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1972. In 1999, Flansburgh was selected for the American Institute of Architects/Boston Society of Architects Award of Honor.

Flansburgh is the father of musician John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants and activist Paxus Calta (formerly E. Schuyler Flansburgh).