LEESER ARCHITECTURE is an internationally acclaimed studio, known as a pioneer in design that specializes in the inclusion of new media and digital technologies in architecture. The firm’s work encompasses architectural design at all scales. Based in New York City, the studio has gained global recognition through cutting edge investigations and design research, incorporating and anticipating both current and future cultural trends and conditions. The careful analysis of a client’s needs and a close collaboration with each client are fundamental work methodologies of the Leeser philosophy.
For almost two decades, and Leeser Architecture, with Thomas Leeser as Principal, has been widely recognized for projects that emerge from cultural, social and technological patterns within the situations the firm engages. By shaping and refocusing our awareness of these forces, Leeser Architecture creates complex and richly varied spatial experiences, new programmatic relationships and beautifully simple organizations.
LEESER ARCHITECTURE specializes in the design of museums and exhibitions, performing art centers, institutional and residential projects, and film, digital video and live performance theaters, and works with an extensive list of specialty consultants. The studio has achieved worldwide reputation for its influential designs, and was one of only five international firms selected to design the Olympic Village for NYC2012. In 2007, the firm won first prize and began initial stages for the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Siberia.
In 2004 and 2008, the studio was also invited to participate in the Venice Biennale, architecture’s most prestigious international exhibition.
Recently, Leeser was selected for invited competitions to design an iconic hotel in Abu Dhabi and the Theater Heidelberg in Germany. The firm was also asked to make proposals for the Moscow Economic School in Russia and the Oasis Village in Dubai.
Among Leeser Architecture’s current projects are a major expansion and renovation to New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, slated to be complete in 2009, and the redesign of the historic Strand Theater.
Latest completed projects include the 3- Legged Dog Center for Art and Technology in Lower Manhattan, the first cultural institution to rebuild after September 11, 2001, as well as two inaugural exhibitions for Laboral Centro de Arte 7 Creation Industrial in Gijon, Spain.
