Leslie J. Laskey

Professor Emeritus, Washington University

in St. Louis

The Laskey Award honors Professor Emeritus, Leslie Laskey and his singular approach to design education during his thirty-five year tenure at Washington University.

Professor Laskey presented to first and second year architecture students an inspired, multi-faceted vision of design. Consistently forceful and inventive, Professor Laskey’s teaching prompted students to think for themselves, extend the range of their abilities, and explore any design opportu-nity in depth. He encouraged collaboration, persistent curiosity, interconnection across disciplines and investigation of scale, material and media.

Leslie Laskey eschewed the perfect answer preferring ongoing process and analysis as the work of design.