Lea Litvin, AIA Receives the 2025 Young Architect Award

Congratulations to Lea Litvin, AIA, LEED AP BD&C on receiving the 2025 Young Architect Award!

The Young Architect Award, presented by AIA Philadelphia's Steering Committee of Fellows, seeks to recognize registered architect(s) between the ages of 25 and 39 for their contribution to the categories of leadership, practice, and service.

Lea Litvin, AIA, LEED AP BD&C

Lea Litvin is a licensed architect, builder, developer, and educator whose work redefines the boundaries of practice. She is co-founder of Lo Design, a WBE-certified multidisciplinary studio in Philadelphia that integrates architecture, construction, and development to create work that is precise in execution, bold in concept, and responsive to community. Her portfolio spans campus-scale planning, award-winning housing, and civic and cultural infrastructure, from two-unit infill projects to large-scale redevelopment.  

In 2017, Lea was awarded the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, serving as Architect & Design Project Manager at Philadelphia social services non-profit HopePHL, where she led $20M+ in publicly funded projects including affordable housing, commercial corridor development, and public-space improvements.  

Alongside her architecture and interior design practice, she has advanced inclusive neighborhood-based commercial development models such as Cambridge Commons, partnering with nonprofits to embed youth recreation, arts, and community programming under one roof. To deliver this work, she also co-founded Built Work, a sister construction company. 

Lea serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Design Collaborative and has regularly taught at various universities across Philadelphia such as the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Drexel University. Lea holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.