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Mr. Theodore Liebman, FAIA

Communities

Other Member Group

College of Fellows

Knowledge Community

Housing Knowledge Community

Other Member Group

International Committee

Perkins Eastman

Principal
New York, NY
United States
10003-1004

Bio

Theodore Liebman, FAIA, architect and planner, is a Principal at Perkins Eastman, the largest architecture firm in New York and with thirteen offices worldwide. Mr. Liebman’s career spans more than 40 years directing the design and development of housing and large scale urban projects worldwide.. He was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture. Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture from Harvard University’s GSD to study “Criteria for Housing at High Densities.” Between 1969 and 1975, Mr. Liebman was Chief of Architecture at the New York State Urban Development Corporation where he oversaw the building of housing for 33,000 families. From 1975 -1977, Mr. Liebman joined the Harvard Institute for International Development in Tehran, Iran as Principal Architectural and Urban Design Advisor to the Tehran Development Council Secretariat and President of HAUS International (Housing and Urban Services, International) from 1977 to 1979. Mr. Liebman was a founding principal of The Liebman Melting Partnership (TLMP), focusing on affordable housing and neighborhood development where he designed and built several thousand units of new housing and several new communities in the northeastern United States as well as large scale mixed-use projects in Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Azerbaijan. Mr. Liebman was the Land Development Manager for the Russian Federation Housing Project funded by the World Bank in 1995/96, where he created the documentation for infrastructure projects according to World Bank rules for international tender and directed land auctions for housing development parcels in five cities in Russia. In 2007, the Liebman Melting Partnership joined Perkins Eastman continuing their focus on large scale development projects internationally. Mr. Liebman is a past president of the New York Chapter of the AIA and in 1988, he was the recipient of the Andrew J. Thomas Pioneer in Housing Award.

Specialties

Housing. Neighborhoods, International

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

M.Arch.
1962 To 1963

Pratt Institute

B.Architecture (w/honors)
1957 To 1962

Job History

Perkins Eastman

Principal
August 2007 - present
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