Theodore Liebman

Biography: Theodore Liebman Architect and Planner The Liebman Melting Partnership Theodore Liebman, FAIA, architect and planner, has spent over 25 years directing the design and development of housing and large scale urban projects worldwide. Mr. Liebman is a founding principal of The Liebman Melting Partnership, focusing on affordable housing and neighborhood development where he has designed and had built several thousand units of new housing and several new communities in the northeastern United States. He is also a managing director of the newly formed American Russian Consortium for Habitat (ARCH) Development, a company that was created to assist in the conversation of Russia's natural and human resources to the production of building products and real estate development. 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. Mr. Liebman's work on housing criteria, culturally and behaviorally responsive housing prototypes, modular and panelized housing construction systems and related research, has permitted him to work with cities and towns to establish appropriate housing programs and better understand neighborhood and community needs. Recent village planning work in the former East Germany and mixed-use urban projects in Russia and the Czech Republic builds upon the cultural, lifestyle, building technology, and town planning strengths that keeps his firm at the cutting edge of new housing and urban planning technology and thought. The firm has completed several buildings in Moscow, Ducat Place I (Citibank Headquarters), Ducat Place II and 53 Leningradsky Prospect and a number are currently in design in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; and Baku, Azerbaijan. 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. He has lectured extensively and served on architectural juries at many universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In addition, his work on housing and urban issues has been published in many architectural journals and this work has served as the conceptual framework for research by other groups in the area of qualitative criteria for housing and emerging building technologies and products for economic and speedy construction.