INTtalk: Designing Housing for People with Brad Leibin

Affordable housing needs to address a lot of problems. Stringent code regulations, NIMBYism, and soaring costs can be primary design drivers instead of the people who live in the buildings. Brad Leibin, AIA, will share design and coursework focused on how designers can transform these constraints into uplifting homes for people.

Brad Leibin, AIA, is Founder and Director of Leibin Architecture in New York City. He is a registered architect in New York and California. Leibin Architecture offers expertise in housing, housing affordability, hospitality, single-family residential, and retail design. With a deep commitment to making a positive impact on the world, Brad has guided the design and construction of thousands of affordable and market-rate homes for a wide range of residents in New York City as well as the West Coast.

While with Marvel, Brad led major, high-rise projects in New York City through all phases of design, permitting, and construction. When he was with David Baker Architects (DBA) in San Francisco, a national leader in housing and hospitality design, Brad co-led the firm's cutting-edge, prefabricated (modular) practice. Brad is active in the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Services Panels consulting cities across the United States on matters of housing reform. Prior to DBA, he was Design Lead at San Francisco-based national non-profit, Public Architecture, a pioneer of the public interest design movement that is now embraced by mainstream design institutions.

Brad holds a Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize for design as well as the Lewis E. Dales Fellowship. As an undergraduate, he studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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