Kyna Leski is a professor of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design where she has been active in forming, teaching and coordinating the first semester core design curriculum since 1989. She has just completed a book on this pedagogy, called, The Making of Design Principles. She also served as the head of the RISD European Honors Program in Rome from 1993 to 1995. Leski and Christopher Bardt are principals of the architectural design firm 3SIX0 (http:www.3six0.com). Their work includes residential, commercial, institutional and furniture commissions as well as urban competition projects. 3six0 has received several AIA Awards and has been recognized as one of the Architectural Vanguard Firms by Architectural Record in 2002. Leski’s project, “Dream House,” placed first in The Japan Architect’s Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1998 and was published in Modern House 2 by Claire Melhuish (Phaidon Press, 2004). In 1997 the Architectural League of New York selected Leski as one of five winners of its annual “Young Architects Competition.” In 2000, she was nominated for the Chrysler Design Awards. Currently, she is serving as the “City Architect Design Decision Review Advisor” to the Mayor of Providence, the Planning Department, and the City Planning Commission and Downcity Review Commission. Leski earned a B.Arch from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in 1985 and a M.Arch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1988.