Andrea Leers

Education

University of Pennsylvania.

Career

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. 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 National Education Association/ Japan United States. 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). 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. In 1982 she and Jane Weinzapfel established Leers Weinzapfel Associates in Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory Expansion (in association with Fumihiko Maki Associates), Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard University Science Center Expansion, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard University Farkas Hall (Formerly Hasty Pudding), Cambridge, Massachusetts

United States Federal Courthouse, Orlando, Florida

Blue Hill Avenue Youth Development Center, Boston, Massachusetts

MBTA Operations Control Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Tobin Bridge Administration Building, Boston, Massachusetts

Jury Member International Competition: Paris-Saclay Student Housing, France (2015)

"Making Connections" at University of Cyprus (2014)

“Women of Architecture: Extended Territories: Leers Weinzapfel Associates” National Building Museum, with Jane Weinzapfel (2014)

Keynote Speaker, “Number Site in Sight: Making Architecture in the Urban Fabric,” 2010 International Design Conference, Shih-Chien University, Taipei, the Republic of China (2010)

"Crossing Scales / Cultures / Disciplines: A Personal Reflection on 10 Years of Design Studios" at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Achievements

• Boston Society of Architects Award of Honor (2009) Award of Excellence, Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture Women in Design Committee (2002).