Ecouterre

As an industrial designer and self proclaimed master multi-tasker, Lea is most excited that her career has been riddled with such a variety of opportunities. Back in 2002, her sustainable design thesis at Philadelphia University was internationally awarded the First Place Professional Winner of the International Design Resource Awards and winner of the Saint Étienne International Design Biennial award for eco design. She has been published in the Eco Design Handbook, and is also a part of the permanent collection of the Huxley College of the Environment at West Washington University. Her successive product design work and her time as a design professor at the Art Institute in Philadelphia have sufficiently kept her on her toes! Lea spends her days designing bathroom furniture and energy efficient lighting fixtures. She is a contributing writer for Inhabitat.com and an amateur photographer. She finds free time to rehab her historic row home, and get involved with the planning and development of green urban spaces for her neighborhood in Philadelphia.