Leif Estrada

ASLA, Assoc. AIA

Associate, Kuth Ranieri Architects

Leif Estrada is an artist, designer and researcher in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and technology.  He attained dual graduate degrees: an advanced post-professional Master in Design Studies degree, with a concentration in Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology (MDesS-ULE '16), and a second-professional degree, Master in Landscape Architecture - Advanced Placement (MLA I AP '16) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he was the second inaugural recipient of the joint degree.  He received his first-professional degree, Bachelor of Architecture (BArch '12), from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, with High Distinction.

His graduate research and thesis, entitled Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River's Fluvial Morphology was awarded the 2015-2016 Thesis Prize by the Faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD, and has been well published and exhibited.

He is a designer at Kuth Ranieri Architects.