Leeser Architecture

Since 1989, as principal of his own firm, Thomas Leeser has achieved worldwide recognition for his influential designs. Leeser Architecture is known internationally for design innovation and integration of new technologies into physical spaces. The firm’s work encompasses architectural design at all scales. Leeser Architecture’s designs emerge largely from cultural, social, and technological patterns in the sites and situations the studio engages. The projects frequently use technology to reframe our understanding of architectural conventions and production, creating powerful environments in the process. By shaping our awareness of these forces, Leeser Architecture creates complex and richly varied spatial experiences, new programmatic relationships, and beautifully simple organizations. In 2008, Leeser Architecture won the competition to design an iconic hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE. In 2007, the studio won first prize for the competition and began initial stages on the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Siberia. Recently, Leeser was selected for invited competitions to design the Moscow Economic School in Russia, Theater Heidelberg in Germany, and the Oasis Village, a residential project in Dubai. Among the studio’s current projects are a major expansion and renovation to New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, for which the steel has been completed, and the redesign of the historic Strand Theatre, part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cultural District. Latest completed projects include the 3LD Art and Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, the first cultural institution to rebuild after September 11, 2001, and two inaugural 50,000 square foot art exhibitions for LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon, Spain.