Thomas Leslie
American architect
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Thomas Leslie 's Degrees
- Masters Architecture University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Architecture University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Leslie is an American architect. 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 joined the Iowa State University faculty in 2000. 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.
Thomas Leslie 's Published Works
Published Works
- The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies (2013) (61)
- Towards a conceptual model for franchise perceptual equity (2010) (24)
- Built Like Bridges: Iron, Steel, and Rivets in the Nineteenth-century Skyscraper (2010) (10)
- Dankmar Adler's Response to Louis Sullivan's “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered”: Architecture and the “Four Causes” (2010) (9)
- A Museum of Living Architecture (2007) (7)
- The Equiangular Spiral in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi (2003) (6)
- The Pan Am Terminal at Idlewild/Kennedy Airport and the Transition from Jet Age to Space Age (2005) (5)
- Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science (2005) (5)
- Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 (2013) (5)
- "As Large as the Situation of the Columns Would Allow": Building Cladding and Plate Glass in the Chicago Skyscraper, 1885–1905 (2008) (4)
- Just What Is It That Makes Capsule Homes So Different, So Appealing? Domesticity and the Technological Sublime, 1945 to 1975 (2006) (4)
- A quest for early tensile structures at Expo 58 (2015) (4)
- Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi (2017) (3)
- The founding events of prestressed concrete in belgium seen through the Blaton archives (2015) (3)
- Things in their best order: technical aspects of the Salk Institute and their role in its design (2003) (3)
- ‘Laborious and difficult’: The evolution of Pier Luigi Nervi’s hangar roofs (1935–41) (2018) (2)
- Integrated Design in the Work of Foster and Partners / Ove Arup Partnership — A Case Study in Connecting the Two Cultures of Building Design (2003) (2)
- Energetic geometries: the Dymaxion Map and the skin/structure fusion of Buckminster Fuller's geodesics (2001) (2)
- Basics: Architectural Design; Designing Architecture; Language of Space and Form; Diagramming the Big Idea; and Architecture (2014) (1)
- Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper (2018) (1)
- The Importance of Steel to Wind-Resistant Building Frames: Riveting and the Quest for Structural Rigidity (2009) (1)
- Breaking stuff: A no frills approach to haptic learning in structures classes (2010) (1)
- THE EVOLUTION OF STREAMLINED AIRSHIP HANGARS (2015) (1)
- Culture Thomas Leslie Technological Sublime , 1945 to 1975 Just What Is It That Makes Capsule Homes So Different , So Appealing ? (2006) (1)
- The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York (review) (2010) (1)
- “Dry and ready in half the time”: Gypsum wallboard's uneasy history (2021) (1)
- The Montreal Project: A Comprehensive Approach to Comprehensive Design (2004) (0)
- Post-Mortem: Eight Years of Comprehensive Design Experiments and What Comes Next (2009) (0)
- Precast Ferro-Cement and “Slender Structures” (2017) (0)
- Walking Nolli: Cartography and Choreography as a Study Abroad Introduction (2009) (0)
- Introduction (2006) (0)
- Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders by Suzanne Bourgeois (review) (2015) (0)
- “Proud and Soaring Things”: Skyscrapers and the City (2019) (0)
- Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue (review) (2011) (0)
- 5ICCH Proceedings Volume 1 (2015) (0)
- Cross Discipline, Cross Country: A Collaborative Design Studio Integrating Architecture And Engineering (2006) (0)
- “The Harmonious Interplay of Ribs”:: Ferro-Cement as Tiling Formwork (2017) (0)
- A 'poet in concrete': structure, fabrication and aesthetics in the work of Pier Luigi Nervi (2019) (0)
- Anatomy of theDomestic Animal System and Rigional Approach (2016) (0)
- “Lines Easily Realized”:: Piers of Varying Sections (2017) (0)
- Glass and Light (2004) (0)
- Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957 (2020) (0)
- ‘Partners in Light:’ How Plastics Enabled Fluorescent Lighting and the Modern Office.” (2019) (0)
- Des Moines Architecture and Design (2017) (0)
- Contributors to This Issue (2011) (0)
- “Repetition of Identical Sections”:: Structural Precasting (2017) (0)
- Form as Diagram of Forces (2003) (0)
- Falcon 20 Microgravity Aircraft: Operational Challenges (2002) (0)
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