Curriculum Vitae

RECENT Leslie Armstrong Architect, City PROFESSIONAL Sole Proprietor, 2002 – 2007, and 2009 to present EXPERIENCE: LARCK Design LLC, Partner with Kirsten Childs ASID LEED AP 2012 to present

Modern Modular, Brooklyn and New York, NY Director of Design and Fabrication May 2009 to September 2010

Rockwell Group, New York City Associate Studio Leader and Project Manager Mar 2007 to Jan 2009

HLW International, New York City Project Manager and Associate, 1994 to 1996 Senior Designer and Senior Associate, 1997 to 2002

RECENT PROJECTS Sugar Hill Real Estate, New York City Armstrong Merker Assoc. Residential Planning and Design

Scali Caffe, Bleecker Street, New York City Upmarket Italian cafe in Greenwich Village Gut renovation, interiors and graphic design.

Brewbakers, Wall Street, New York City Coffee Shop and takeout eatery. Gut renovation, interiors and graphic design.

Birsel + Seck, New York City Product design offices

RECENT PROJECTS

LARCK Design LLC Degende Apartment, New York City 2013 Renovation and interior design

Warshaw Apartment. New York, City Renovation and interior design

Leslie Armstrong Architect Friedman Tennenbaum Apartment, Brooklyn, NY 2005 – 2012 Renovation and interior design

Stark Residence, Hammersmith, Gut renovation and interiors

Osbert Hood Penthouse & Terrace, New York City Renovation and terrace landscaping

Wolf Residence, Phoenix, AZ Cosmetic renovation and interiors

Theodore Residence, Kamuela, HI Cosmetic renovation and interiors

PROJECTS Hospitality: Rockwell Group Affinia Hotel, Denihan Hospitality, New York City 2007 - 2009 W Cancun, Cancun, Mexico

Recreation: Imagination Playground, New York City

PROJECTS Hospitality: HLW Hotel Casa del Mar, Santa Monica CA 1994 - 2001 Banking and Finance: Greenpoint Bank, Greenpoint and New York, NY

SIAC, Brooklyn NY

Corporate Interiors: Newscorp – fX Cable Television, New York NY T3 Media, New York NY United Media, New York, NY Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Corp. New York NY Goelet Management Corp. New York NY Lucent Technologies, Liberty Corners NJ

Performing Arts: Bryn Athyn Performing Arts Center, Bryn Athyn PA National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped, New York NY

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL Armstrong Associates EXPERIENCE: New York City,1991 to 1994.

Armstrong Cumming Architects New York City, 1984 to 1991

Butler Rogers Baskett `````` New York City, 1983 to 1984

Design Coalition New York City, 1980 to 1983

Armstrong Childs Associates New York City, 1973 to 1980

SPECIAL PROJECTS: Vela School, Umtata, Transkei, Republic of South Africa Site and Landscaping Plan for Expansion of Existing K-8 School and schematic design for conversion of existing Afrikaner weaving factory to house Velas new high school, both in South African Black Homeland of Transkei.

Snug Harbor Music Hall, Staten Island, NY Finalist in national design competition for restoration and addition to 1892 Greek Revival theatre in Sailors' Snug Harbor. With Jan Hird Pokorny, Architects & Planners

14th Interiors Initiative Prototypical executive office and furniture design for woman publisher, co-sponsored by Working Woman and Interiors magazines, and by Wilsonart Laminates and published simultaneously

TEACHING Fashion Institute of Technology EXPERIENCE: State University of New York First Year Interior Design Studio, Spring 2002 to Spring 2007 Working Drawings, Fall 2006 Professional Practice, Spring 1996 Aesthetics of Design, Fall 1995

Columbia University School of Visiting Critic, Second Year Studio, Winter 1978

Parsons School of Design Visiting Critic, Interior Design Studio, Spring 1981

PUBLICATIONS: Space for Dance An Architectural Design Guide for Theatre for Dance and Related Performing Arts, commissioned jointly by the Dance and Design Arts Programs of the National Endowment for the Arts. Publishing Center on Cultural Resources, New York,1984.

The Little House Collier Macmillan, New York,1979 An illustrated manual for the layman and the professional student on the design and construction of small, single family housing, with Kirsten Childs..

PROFESSIONAL AND American Institute of Architects, NY Chapter EDUCATIONAL Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey, Trustee Emmerita ORGANIZATIONS: The Helicon Foundation, Advisor

EDUCATION: , New York City Master of Architecture Thesis: New Science Library for Brown University

Brown University, Providence, RI Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude Honors in Art History Member Phi Beta Kappa

The Brearley School, New York City

REGISTRATION: New York State Subsequently Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, and Rhode Island Member NCARB

LANGUAGES: Conversational French and Italian 150 words, Turkish

PERSONAL: Married to John Bowers, author Three children, two step children

PROJECTS Institutional and Educational: Prior to 1994: Brown University, Providence RI Performance & teaching spaces, 2 libraries and offices Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY Performance space and support spaces Oberlin College, Oberlin OH Dormitory renovations Robert College of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Library planning & pedestrian bridge building

Performing Arts:

American Place Theatre, New York NY Blues Armory Theatre, Richmond VA Grand Opera House, Wilmington DE Klein Memorial Auditorium, Bridgeport CT Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore MD Spanish Repertory Theatre, New York NY St. Clements Church Theatre, New York, NY

Corporate Interiors:

Henry Holt & Co., Inc., New York NY TCLI Publishing, New York NY Wyse Advertising, New York NY

Retail:

Brewbakers, New York, NY D.F. Sanders, New York, NY Tiger’s Eye, New York, NY

Residential:

Paul Mayen, Garrison, NY Barry and Jivan Wolf, New York NY and Bel Air CA Edwin and Virginia Barber, New York, NY Keith Richards and Patti Hansen, Weston CT Charles Schwartz and Nancy Drosd, New York NY James Taylor and Carly Simon, Martha’s Vineyard MA John Kousi, New York NY Albert Fuller, New York, NY Dr. and Mrs. Hans H. Zinsser, New