Thomas Leslie
Thomas Leslie (born 1967) is an American architect and the Ralph E. Johnson Professor of Design at the Illinois School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Leslie earned a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1989, followed by a Master of Architecture at Columbia University in 1992. He worked for Foster & Partners for seven years, and taught at Iowa State University from 2000-2022.
Thomas Leslie
- Born
- 1967
- Occupation
- architect · university teacher
- Fields
- architecture
- Languages
- English
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Thomas Leslie (born 1967) is an American architect and the Ralph E. Johnson Professor of Design at the Illinois School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Leslie earned a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1989, followed by a Master of Architecture at Columbia University in 1992. He worked for Foster & Partners for seven years, and taught at Iowa State University from 2000-2022.
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Leslie was a 2004 awardee of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's Creative Achievement Award. He was named to the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture within the Iowa State University College of Design in 2011. In 2013, Leslie was awarded the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation. Leslie received the 2015 Educator Award from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The following year, Leslie was appointed to a Morrill Professorship at Iowa State University. In 2018, Leslie was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 2022, and was named an ACSA Distinguished Professor in 2023.
• Leslie, Thomas (2023). Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986.. University of Illinois Press.. * • Alternate URL * *
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