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Laura Turlington, AIA, is the principal of Pirie Turlington Architects. At PTA, she has developed an office structure and design process based on the principle that the highest quality environments result when each client’s unique potential is revealed and sensitively woven together with project circumstance.
She is on the faculty of Yale University School of Architecture where she teaches graduate students in a team-based design development studio. Her leadership awareness practice and facilitation skills enable her to support students in pursuit of common solutions. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at the firm of Cesar Pelli & Associates where she fostered an engaging, active design and delivery process with diverse client and community groups, officials, consultants, peers and staff. She has also taught at the University of Florida and for the New Haven Public School System where she developed and taught four interdisciplinary, design thinking courses for inter-district high school students. She has had projects published in “Architecture” magazine, and was the Co-Editor of “Perspecta 28, the Yale Architectural Journal”.
Having a passion for effective collaboration and inventive leadership, Laura facilitates communities, businesses, groups and individuals in discovering and strengthening their unique vision and aiding in the process of bringing form to authentic aspirations. She also leads groups to sacred and archeologically significant sites around the world to bring awareness to and reveal tools for balanced, harmonious collaboration among individuals, communities and the environment.
Laura received her Bachelor of Design degree with High Honors from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Receiving her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University, she was recognized for outstanding work with a Feldman Scholarship Nomination and receipt of the Henry B. Adams Gold Medal.
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