Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Crossing Scales/Cultures/Disciplines: a Personal Reflection on 10 Years of Design Studios" Tube. Duration : 78.83 Mins.


Andrea Leers is principal and co-founder with Jane Weinzapfel, of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, a Boston based practice whose work lies at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and infrastructure and is notable for its inventiveness in dramatically complex projects. The firm's acclaimed projects include the Expansion of the Harvard Science Center, the Harvard New College Theatre/Farkas Hall (formerly Hasty Pudding), the University of Pennsylvania Chiller Plant, several courthouses including the Federal Courthouse in Orlando FL and the Taunton Trial Court in Taunton MA, and the recently completed Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. Leers Weinzapfel Associates has received over 65 design awards and was honored in 2007 with the AIA Firm Award, the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm. A monograph on the firm's work "Made to Measure: the Work of Leers Weinzapfel Associates was published in 2011 by Princeton Architectural Press. Andrea Leers holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Wellesley College, and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. She 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 following several years as Visiting Critic. Her studios integrating architecture and urban design include ...

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