Anna Leshnick
Anna is a designer based in Brooklyn. A certified Passive House Consultant with the North American Passive House Network in cooperation with the Passive House Academy, Anna is trained in energy-efficient design principles, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality. Originally from Moscow, she earned a degree in architecture from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem before relocating to the United States in 2018.
Prior to moving to New York, Anna worked on the preservation of Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage site noted for its regionalist adaptation of Bauhaus “International Style” architecture to the cultural and climatic context of the Mediterranean. With Tyler Survant and Arun Rimal, Anna co-founded Building Bureau, a nonprofit architecture organization based in the United States and Nepal. ■
Tyler Survant, RA AIA NCARB
Tyler is an architect and an instructor of architecture at Montana State University. He has previously taught at Columbia GSAPP and the City College of New York.
Concerned with the social impact of the built environment, Tyler’s professional work has focused on projects abroad. Most notably, for SHoP Architects he relocated to Gaborone, Botswana for on-site construction administration of the Botswana Innovation Hub, a tech incubator for the country’s Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology. He started working in Nepal in 2017 as project manager for a 75-bed hospital for Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population. Tyler holds degrees in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University and he is a licensed architect in the states of Montana and New York. With Anna Leshnick and Arun Rimal, Tyler co-founded Building Bureau, a nonprofit architecture organization based in the United States and Nepal. ■