Jane Weinzapfel


Jane Weinzapfel is an American educator and architect. Together with Andrea Leers, Weinzapfel created the Boston-based architecture firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates which was the first woman-owned firm to win the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award in 2007. In 1994, she was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
Her academic career includes teaching positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning. Weinzapfel was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Early life and education

Jane Hanson Weinzapfel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona. She was an apprentice in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Earl Flansburgh, Weinzapfel worked with Wallace Floyd Ellenzweig Moore, Inc. where notable projects included the Multiple Mirror Telescope at Mt. Hopkins, AZ and the Alewife Multimodal MBTA Station, Cambridge, MA. In 1982 she and Andrea Leers established Leers Weinzapfel Associates in Boston, Massachusetts.

Significant Projects