Paul Lewis (architect)

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Paul Lewis is a practicing architect based in New York City. He is a principal of LTL Architects and an assistant professor and director of graduate studies at Princeton University School of Architecture. [1] He also has taught at Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Cooper Union, Ohio State University, and Parsons The New School for Design.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University (1988) and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture (1992). He is the winner of the 1998–1999 Mercedes T. Bass Rome Prize in Architecture and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 2018, Paul Lewis was elected the president of the Architectural League of New York. [7]

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References

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