About:

Theodore Liebman and partner were winners of the prestigious Rome Prize and spent several years living abroad and producing plans for major new communities. They were part of the New York State Urban Development Corporation—Liebman as Chief Architect—in the 1970s, and were responsible for over 30,000 units of new housing across New York State. (source: The Liebman Melting Partnership Web site).  He has a BA from Pratt and an MARCH from Harvard. His NYC-based firm founded in 1985 focuses on affordable housing and neighborhood development in the northeastern US. He has also worked on housing and village planning in Iran, Russia, the Czech Republic, and other areas of Eastern Europe.
 

Books:

Liebman, Theodore. The housing cluster prototype.  Tehran, Iran : Plan & Budget Organization, Urban Development & Housing Dept.,  1977.  (Available through Inter-Library Loan).

Liebman, Theodore. Neighborhood : an experience of neighborhood -- Tehran/Brooklyn /  Tehran : Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978.  (Available through Inter-Library Loan).
 

Articles (Selected from 1979- 2001):

"Liebman and Melting." Oculus, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 15-16, Apr 2001.
    Note: Architects Ted Liebman and Alan Melting lectured on their firm's residential work to members of the AIA New York Chapter's Housing Committee on Mar.5, 2001.  (Avery Online)

"Home, sweet home? Houses by New York architects."  Merkel, Jayne., Oculus, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 12-16, Sept 1999.
    Note: A selection of residential projects - apartment houses, condominiums, penthouses, lofts, and other living spaces in the city as well as single-family houses outside New York - by Chapter architects. (Avery  Online)

"Exporting architecture: New York architects abroad." Rappaport, Nina., Oculus, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 10-14., Oct 1995.

"Three housing initiatives in Brooklyn." Arcidi, Philip, Progressive architecture, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 110-111, June 1991.

"Setting the table in Arverne."  Rivkin, Jacqueline, Metropolis, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 19-21, June 1990.

"Taming the city edge: urban design portfolio."  Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer, Architecture: the AIA journal, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. [74]-79, 147, Apr 1990.

"Designing public housing." Gastil, Raymond W., [1958-], Metropolis, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 23-25, Dec 1988.

"Compromised ideal: Marcus Garvey Park Village housing, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1973-76; architects: Theodore Liebman, Kenneth Frampton, Anthony Pangaro and others."
Stephens, Suzanne, [1942-], Progressive architecture, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 50-53, Oct 1979.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Site:

The LiebmanMelting Partnership  www.liebmanmelting.com/
 
 

Judy Connorton
October 2005