Thomas Leslie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Architect, FAIA, teaches building science, history, and design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since practicing with Norman Foster and Partners in London, he has held appointments at the University of Technology Sydney, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Università di Bologna, Iowa State University, and Northwestern University. Leslie is the author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871–1934 (2013), Beauty’s Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi (2017), and Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934–1986 (2023), which received the 2024 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award from the Newberry Library. He was the Booth Family Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome in 2013–2014.