Monica Ponce de Leon:
Principal, Office dA, New York/Boston/Ann Arbor
Dean, Taubman College, University of Michigan
Office dA is best known in Los Angeles for its leading green design of Helios House, a sustainable gas station at the south east corner of Olympic and Robertson Boulevards.
Ponce de Leon is currently the Dean of Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning as well as a Professor and Director of the digital lab at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her firm has received 10 progressive architecture awards, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, among many others.