abbreviated curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture | Columbia University | New York, NY | May 2009
independent study: Ornamental Connectivity: Form, Fabrication, and Data Environments

Master of Science in Urban Planning | Columbia University | New York, NY | May 2006
masters thesis: The Quasi-Public Good: The Ethics of Information in New York City Planning

Bachelor of Arts in Art: Architecture and Urbanism | Smith College | Northampton, MA | May 2002
special studies: The Pruitt-Igoe Paradox
special studies: set design for The House of Bernarda Alba

 

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

Intersticity | New York, NY & Jersey City, NJ | 2012 - present | Partner

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation | New York, NY | 2012 - present | Adjunct Assistant Professor

Barnard College Urban Studies Program | New York, NY | 2013 - present | Adjunct Assistant Professor

New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Architecture and Design New Jersey School of Architecture | Newark, NJ | 2013 - present | Adjunct Instructor

Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University | NYC | 2009 - 2013 | Adjunct Associate Research Scholar

Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, New York University | New York, NY | 2010 - 2012 | Research Scientist

PRE-Office | New York, NY | 2008 - 2012 | Partner

Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University | New York, NY | 2007 - 2009 | Research Associate

Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University | New York, NY | 2006 - 2009 | Research Assistant

 

TEACHING

Knowing Cities | Columbia University GSAPP | Spring 2013 

Advanced GIS: Seminar in Spatial Analysis | Columbia University GSAPP | Spring 2013 

Introduction to GIS Methods | Barnard College Urban Studies Program | Spring 2013

Architecture Options Studio: Public Housing Post-Sandy | with Brian Loughlin | New Jersey Institute of Technology CoAD | Spring 2013

Introduction to GIS | Columbia University GSAPP | Fall 2012

Architecture Studio III | with Brian Loughlin | New Jersey Institute of Technology CoAD | Fall 2012

MS Real Estate Development Envisioning Studio | with Brian Loughlin | Columbia University GSAPP | Summer 2012

Ethnographic Mapping in Tourism Areas in the Dominican Republic: HIV Transmission in Sosua | with Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, LCSW | New York University Silver School of Social Work | Summer 2011 

 

PUBLICATIONS (authored, contributed, or featured work)

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Jaccarda, J., McCarthy, K., Quinones, Z., Lushina, V., Skinner-Day, M., Padilla, M., Meisterlin, L., "Taxonomy of Caribbean tourism alcohol venues: Implications for HIV transmission." Drug and Alcohol Dependence. (in press)
 

Meisterlin, Leah Ed. Comments on Foreclosed. New York: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, 2013. [Preface by Reinhold Martin]

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Padilla, M., Meisterlin, L., McCarthy, K., Lotz, K. "Tourism ecologies, alcohol venues, and HIV: Mapping spatial risk." International Journal of Hispanic Psychology, 2012, 5(2).

Meisterlin, Leah. "Foreclosed." Metropolis Magazine: Point of View. 15 March 2012.

Martin, Reinhold, Leah Meisterlin, and Anna Kenoff. The Buell Hypothesis: Rehousing the American Dream. New York: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, 2011. 

Browning, Gavin, ed. The Studio-X New York Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation. New York: The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, 2010. 

Kottas, Dimitris. Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques Barcelona: Links, 2010. 

Hurley, Amanda. "New Practice, Un-Practice." Architect. February 2010: cover, 44-49. 

Holl, Steven. Urbanisms: Working with Doubt. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. [maps contributed]

The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Public Housing: A New Conversation. New York: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2009. 

Meisterlin, Leah, et al. "The Stimulus Studio." Urban. Spring 2009: 7-9. 

Davis, Aaron and Leah Meisterlin. "Upset Ethics." Crisis, Urban China Bootlegged by C-Lab for Volume. February 2009.

Varnelis, Kazys, ed. The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles. Barcelona and New York: ACTAR, 2008. [Maps by Leah Meisterlin]

Davis, Aaron and Leah Meisterlin. "Upset Ethics." Urban China. September 2008.

Varnelis, Kazys and Leah Meisterlin. "The Invisible City: Design in the Age of Intelligent Maps." Adobe Think Tank. July 2008.

Meisterlin, Leah. "Fair Play and Forced Forfeiture." URBAN. Spring 2006, 23-25.

Meisterlin, Leah and Clare Newman. "New New Orleans vN.x: An attempt at Rational Planning." The Question of New Orleans. Ed. Columbia University GSAPP. New York: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006. 22-23.

Meisterlin, Leah. "Advocacy on Madison Avenue." URBAN. Fall 2005: 14-15.

Meisterlin, Leah. "The Tie that Binds [editors' introduction]." URBAN. Fall 2005: 16-17.

Meisterlin, Leah. "Defining the Disaster Plan: Predicting, Preempting, Recovering, Rebuilding [editors' introduction]." URBAN. Spring 2005: 18-19.

Kays, Elizabeth and Leah Meisterlin. "It's All About the Spin." URBAN. Spring 2005: 40.

 

WORK FEATURED IN EXHIBITION

"Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" at the Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2012. 

"194X-9/11: American Architects and the City" at the Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2011-2012.

Currid, Elizabeth and Sarah Williams. "Geography of Buzz" at Studio-X: New York, 2009. [GIS research associate on the project]

"Design and the Elastic Mind" at the Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2008. [GIS work contributed to featured Spatial Information Design Lab project as SIDL research assistant]

"Urban China" at the New Museum. New York, 2008. [featured Crisis, with Aaron Davis]

Spatial Information Design Lab. "Architecture and Justice" at the Architectural League. New York, 2006. [SIDL research assistant]

"Venice Biennale." Venice, IT, 2006. [student contributor with Clare Newman]

"New Orleans Now." New Orleans, LA, 2006. [student contributor with Clare Newman]

"BuildBoston." Boston, MA, 2001. [student contributor]

 

TALKS

"The Subjective Map: Decision Support & Critical Advocacy" at the Ford Foundation's Change By Design: Telling Meaningful Stories through Data Conference, NYC, 2012.

"GROW[ing] Up: SLOW[ing] Down" at the 2011 AIA Georgia Design Conference, Athens, GA, 2011. [with Aaron Davis]

"RAPID RESPONSE: Spontaneous Architecture" at Studio-X: New York, NYC, 2010 (monthly).

"Entrepreneurial Architecture in Five Easy Steps" at the Forum for Urban Design, NYC, 2010. [with Zachary Colbert]

"PRE-Office: Conversations with Architects" at Studio-X: New York, NYC, 2009. [with PRE-Office]

 

AWARDS & POSITIONS

William Kinne Fellowship Columbia University | Spring 2009

Spatial Information Design Lab Fellowship Columbia University | Summer 2006

Charles Abrams Urban Planning Thesis Prize Columbia University | Spring 2006

Smith College Academic Honor Board, chair | 2001-2002

STRIDE Scholar Smith College | 1998-2000