Andrea Leers

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 NEA/ Japan U.S. Friendship Commission Design Arts Fellow. Leers was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy of Rome (1997), invited to be Chaire des Ameriques at the Sorbonne (Universite de Paris) (2007), and was Chair Professor at the National Chiao Tung University (2011-2014). In 2018, Leers was appointed to serve as Chair of Commission for the city of Boston.

• Name — Andrea Leers • Birthplace — Miami, Florida • Education — Wellesley College; The University of Pennsylvania • Significant Projects — MIT Media Lab; • Awards — Architecture Firm Award (2007)

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.

• MIT Media Lab 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 • Franklin County Justice Center, Greenfield, Massachusetts • University of Arkansas Adohi Hall, Fayetteville, Arkansas • University of Pennsylvania Gateway Complex, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • John W. Olver Design Building, Amherst, Massachusetts • Dudley Square Neighborhood Police Station, Boston, Massachusetts