Lecturer
Leslie Forehand
Lecturer, Architecture
Mailing Address
Architecture Department
158 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011
Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-8786
Email: forehand@iastate.edu
Office: 484 Design
Education
2012 PRATT Institute - Masters of Architecture
2005 University of Virginia - Bachelors of Science in Architectural Design; Second Major in Studio Art
On the Web
https://leslieforehand.com/
LinkedIn
Supporting Files
Research Interests
Forehand is a researcher, educator and designer with over ten years of experience collaborating with architects, engineers, scientists, historians, artists and fashion designers in the classrooms and through research. Forehand investigates the materiality of digital processes, computation and construction, advanced fabrication processes and visualization techniques through emerging tools, tackling design problems both in research and academia. Forehand is a David Lingle Faculty Fellow and Lecturer of Architecture at Iowa State University. Previously, she taught and conducted research as the Designer of Information Visualization and 3D Modeling at the Center for Research at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. She has lectured, exhibited, published and taught internationally. Among her recent award-wining projects is Mashrabiya 2.0 (with Doyle, Hunt and Senske) in computation, masonry design and construction, awarded by the International Masonry Institute (2018).
