Monica Ponce de Leon

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Monica Ponce de Leon is a Venezuelan-born architect and educator based in Boston, MA. She is founding partner with Nader Tehrani in the award-winning firm Office dA, Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and incoming Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. [1]

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[edit] Background

Ms. Ponce de Leon earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. She taught at Miami, the University of Houston, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, and Northeastern University before being appointed full-time at Harvard in 1996. She has also taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has given over 60 lectures and symposia on her work, which has been published in over 200 publications worldwide. Alongside Tehrani, Ms. Ponce de Leon received both the Young Architects Award in 1997 and the Emerging Voices Award in 2003 from the Architectural League of New York. In 2002, she received an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Since being founded in 1991, the work of Office dA has received numerous professional and progressive design awards, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award (2007) [2], ten Progressive Architecture awards, the Harleston Parker Medal (2002), as well as citations from the American Institute of Architects, I.D. Magazine, the Congress for New Urbanism, and the Boston Society of Architects. In 2008, the firm's Macallen Building was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment. [3]

On April 29, 2008, it was announced that Ms. Ponce de Leon would succeed Douglas S. Kelbaugh as Dean of Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Pending Board of Regents approval, her five-year appointment will take effect September 1. [4]

[edit] Further reading

  • Contemporary World Architects: Office dA, by Randolphe El-Khoury, et al. (Rockport Publishers, 1999)
  • Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design and Materials, by Toshiko Mori (Braziller, 2002)
  • Surface Architecture, by David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi (MIT Press, 2005)
  • Zago Architecture and Office dA: Two Installation, by Eric Owen Moss, et al. (Actar, 2006)
  • Young Architects 7: Situating, by the Architectural League of New York, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ TCAUP. "Monica Ponce De Leon Appointed New Dean", TCAUP, 29 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-30. 
  2. ^ http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/award.asp?catID=ad&nameID=officeda Cooper Hewitt, 2007 National Design Awards in Architecture Design
  3. ^ http://www.aiatopten.org/hpb/ AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects
  4. ^ Barbara Wagner. "New dean for Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning", University Record, 29 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-30. 


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