Andrea Leers

Andrea Leers
Born Miami, Florida
Nationality American
Alma mater Wellesley College; The University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Architect
Awards Architecture Firm Award (2007)
Projects MIT Media Lab;

Andrea Leers is an American architect and educator. Together with Jane Weinzapfel, Leers created the Boston-based architecture firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates which was the first woman-owned firm to win the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award in 2007.[1] In 1991, she was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

Leers is former Director of the Master in Urban Design Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she was Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design from 2001 to 2011.[2] Her academic career includes teaching positions at Yale University's School of Architecture (1981-1988), the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts (1990, 1998-1999), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1991) and the University of Virginia School of Architecture (1995). In 1982 she spent a year in Japan as a NEA/ Japan U.S. Friendship Commission Design Arts Fellow. Leers was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy of Rome (1997), invoted to be Chaire des Ameriques at the Sorbonne (Universite de Paris) (2007), and was Chair Professor at the National Chiao Tung University (2011-2014).[1]

Early life and education

Leers was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Wellesley College and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts during the tenure of Louis I. Kahn. After an apprenticeship period in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leers founded a practice in 1970 with former husband Hugh Browning, and when they divorced in 1978 she led the firm until 1982. In 1982 she and Jane Weinzapfel established Leers Weinzapfel Associates in Boston, Massachusetts.

Significant projects

Significant lectures

Awards

Bibliography

References

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  4. "Maki and Associates’ MIT Media Lab Leads Boston Society of Architects Awards with Harleston Parker Medal". AIArchitect. American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  5. Snoonian, Deborah. "Harvard University Science Center Expansion". Architectural Record. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  6. Leers Weinzapfel Associates. "Harvard University New College Theater". Architectural Record. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  7. "Theatrical Debut". Harvard Magazine. January–February 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  8. "United States Courthouse Judge's Award and Best Public Building". December 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  9. "Award-Winning Works". Architecture Week. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  10. "Made to Measure: The Architecture of Leers Weinzapfel Associates". ArchDaily. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  11. Matchan, Linda (October 14, 2007). "Unafraid to be unglamorous: A design firm run by women turns unsexy projects into award-winning architecture". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  12. "Student housing – Paris Saclay". epps.fr. 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  13. "Making Connections". Cyprus Events. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  14. "Extended Territories: Women of Architecture". National Building Museum. 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  15. "建築人 • Becoming•變向 2010國際設計研討會". bbs.archi.sdnl.org. 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  16. "Crossing Scales/Cultures/Disciplines: a Personal Reflection on 10 Years of Design Studios". Harvard Graduate School of Design. 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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