Liza Boffi
Liza Boffi teaches undergraduate and graduate design studios. Her pedagogical approach emphasizes observation, narrative, and conceptual clarity, inviting students to explore spatial design through a lens of experiential storytelling.
She leads L. Boffi Studios, a Pittsburgh-based multidisciplinary concept design practice spanning architecture, UX/UI design, installations, botanical illustration, and visual research. Boffi draws upon this professional design experience to inform her teaching and studio critique.
She earned her Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a licensed architect and NCARB certificate holder.
Fall 2025 Teaching
This studio introduces students to the fundamentals of architectural design through practices of critical thinking, iterative design methodology, and design agency. Emphasizing form, space and composition, this first-year studio lays the foundation for a rigorous and creative design practice.
Spring 2025 Teaching
This studio will continue to understand architecture as a modulator of complex cultural and historical flows, but aims to do so by intensively exploring, evaluating and expanding the role that tectonic cultures and their associated modes of architectural expression play in shaping our world.