About
Caroline S. Lebar, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a licensed architect in San Francisco, California, with a focus on higher education, affordable housing, historic preservation, and public interest design. Her work includes design, construction administration, teaching, and research. She is an Associate with Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, where she has been leading project teams for student housing and affordable housing projects. Previously, she worked with CAW Architects in Palo Alto, where she led the design and construction of the major renovation of historic Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University, in addition to other award-winning projects in historic preservation and K-12 public schools.
Outside the office, Caroline has taught design studios in UC Berkeley’s Sustainable Environmental Design program; Hampton University's Department of Architecture; Stanford University's Architectural Design Program; and Duke University's TIP Summer Studies Program at Rice University. She also served as Curator and Assistant Curator of the Columbia GSAPP Slide and Video Library, the school's teaching and research image collection, from 2011 to 2013.
Caroline is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) with a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degree. She received a dual A.B. from Duke University in Art History, Concentration in Architecture, and in Philosophy, where her undergraduate thesis discussed the urbanism of medieval monastic architecture in the city of Rome.
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