Leslie Gill has practised within the structure of her native city, New York, for her entire 20-year career. In her work, natural and artificial light is trained to wash over and transmit through surface to reflect the temporal, define programme, and make clear spatial progressions. Projects include a Brooklyn townhouse and prototypical distance-learning classrooms or e-labs using thermally and visually controlled environments. Leslie Gill founded her own firm, Leslie Gill Architect, 12 years ago after a decade as a partner of Bausman-Gill Associates. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design and a Visiting Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has been twice named a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and awards for her architecture and painting include a Citation of Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Architecture from the Cooper Union.