Stefan Di Leo, RA, AIA is an educator, registered architect and design principal at Studio RAI based in New York. He teaches at Pratt Institute and Boston Architectural College on topics ranging from architectural drawing, representation, innovative material practices urban design and masterplanning.
Through his experiences at OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture) , Handel Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell, Fredrich St. Florian and Studio Luz Stefan developed an expertise in highly crafted art objects, well considered architectural spaces, and large scale, mixed-use urban developments.
While at Harvard, Stefan worked with Rem Koolhaas’s on the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Elements of Architecture exhibition and the publication published by Taschen.
During an artist residency at PS1 MoMA for EXPO 1: New York developed by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stefan developed novel approaches for combining coastal resiliency and recreation for the coast of New York City.
Stefan’s work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Salone del Mobile Milano, Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA PS1 and the Smart Geometry Conferences in the United States and Europe. Stefan has also exhibited at institutions such as Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Stefan earned a Bachelor of Fine-Arts and Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Post-Professional Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Stefan is a partner at Studio RAI architects based in New York and currently holds Assistant Professorships in Architecture at Pratt Institute and the Boston Architectural College.