Amy Lelyveld

Amy Lelyveld is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP where she has been teaching China related History Theory seminars since 2014.

Lelyveld graduated from the University of Chicago with Special Honors and a specialization in Chinese. She studied at London’s Architectural Association and received her Masters of Architecture from Yale where she went on to partner invited Advanced Studio critics such as Glenn Murcutt, Brigitte Shim, Sir Michael Hopkins, et al. She has been the principal of Amy Lelyveld, Architects PLLC since 2000 and is responsible for the design and completion of 22 projects in New York since then. Between 2010 and 2013, Lelyveld headed the Yale/Tsinghua Undergraduate Program based at Peking University (Beida) where she was an Advanced Visiting Scholar/Associate Professor. Her writing has been published in World Architecture, SEGDdesign, AD (Vol 74. No.2), 2G (17), and U and A (No.83).