Leslie Armstrong
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Leslie Armstrong

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Leslie Armstrong is the author of three books: Girl Intrepid, her upcoming memoir which will be out this October; The Little House, a groundbreaking illustrated manual for the design and construction of small, single family housing; and Space for Dance: An Architectural Design Guide, which was commissioned by the Dance and Design Arts programs of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Although she knew she wanted to be an architect from an early age, Leslie's love of theater led her to experience exciting summers in Spoleto, Italy, working on the very early seasons of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Festival of Two Worlds, then a brief stint in set design in off-Broadway theater before starting architecture school at Columbia University, in a time when very few women were accepted in that world.

In her long and successful career as a ground-breaking woman in architecture, she has focused on renovating and re-purposing buildings for the performing arts, as well as residential and corporate architecture and interiors.

She is a graduate of The Brearley School, Brown University, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation. She served on the Board of Trustees of Robert College of Istanbul for twenty-five years and co-chaired its Building Committee, and now serves on the Alumnae Board of the Brearley School.

She and her husband, writer John Bowers, live in New York City.
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