Leslie Gill Architect, a New York City-based design and architecture firm, has created spaces for schools, residences, offices, and institutions, and has gained a reputation for executing intelligent, innovative design. In the vitality of a design atelier, buildings, interiors, installations, furniture and sculptures are developed simultaneously and with equal attention to technical invention and professional rigor. LGA ensures that the continuum of scales—from the urban to the institutional to the intimacy of a room—will be designed with unified purpose. Additionally, LGA’s focus on quality interiors, finishes and details are strategically employed both to inspire and to best serve the user. The firm’s work is a result of analyzing, interpolating and then engaging the relationships between abstract concepts, spatial sequence, and identity with the materials and systems used to represent them. LGA believes that architecture must also challenge the mind and engage the senses through the tangible and ephemeral qualities of light and material.

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In several decades of practice, principal Leslie Gill, NCARB, has varied her working methods. Under her artistic leadership the practice now works both solely and collaboratively, allowing it to undertake large projects with diverse technical challenges. This dual strategy allows for growth and exploration within architecture, and also within allied disciplines of technology, landscape, graphics, and lighting. This ultimately enriches, diversifies and expands the firm’s artistic breadth.

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Leslie Gill and her firm have established a reputation for close working relationships with a broad range of clients. Notable projects include Elektra Entertainment’s corporate headquarters; programming and master planning for Warner Bros. Records, Los Angeles; design and fabrication of sculptures for private, corporate, and public collections; new product explorations for the Formica corporation; prototype distance learning classrooms for the Edison project and roll-out; exhibit design for the National Design Museum; and residences throughout the Eastern seaboard.

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Ms. Gill’s work has been featured in numerous architectural publications, including Interior Design, Architectural Review (UK), Abitare (Italy), Architectural Record, Architecture, Designer’s Journal (UK), Elle Decor, House and Garden, Interiors, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times, Ottagono (Italy), Progressive Architecture, and SD (Japan). Most comprehensive is the issue of a+u: Architecture and Urbanism (Japan) devoted to her projects. Educated at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in New York, Leslie Gill currently serves as a Trustee. She has been twice named a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received a variety of grants and prizes for her work, including a Citation of Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Architecture from the Cooper Union. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design and a Visiting Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is the Vice-Chair of the Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture, and is actively involved in the New York State Council of the Arts and the Architectural League of New York. She has served as co-chair for the last five years of the Chrysler Awards, a program dedicated to recognizing design innovations. After twelve years as a founding partner of Bausman-Gill Associates, she initiated her own practice, Leslie Gill Architect, in 1995.