Event Pass Information Event Pass TypePriceQuantity In-Person - Student with Valid IDFREE 0 1 2 3 4 In-Person - General Public$15.00 USD 0 1 2 3 4 Event Details The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose work excels in the field of interior architecture. This year’s lecture will feature Leong Leong, an internationally recognized architecture studio and design consultancy based in New York City. The firm partners with forward-thinking clients, cultural enterprises, and institutions to build cultural resonance and advance social agendas within the built environment. Leong Leong was founded in 2009 by brothers Chris and Dominic Leong, with a portfolio that encompasses a broad range of projects and scales, from urban campuses and institutional spaces to interiors and furniture. Their collaborative design approach integrates aesthetic, social, and ecological concerns to create spaces that foster new ways of living, learning, and convening. Working across disciplines, its diverse staff expands the role of the architect, synthesizing strategic thinking with formal and material experimentation. Speakers: Dominic Leong, AIA, Founding partner, Leong Leong Chris Leong, AIA, Founding partner, Leong Leong About the Speakers: Dominic Leong, AIA, is the founding partner at Leong Leong, currently leads design across all projects. He focuses on architecture as an aesthetic, social, and ecological practice working at the intersection of art and living. As an educator, Dominic has held invited faculty positions at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2024, Dominic held the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture. Dominic is on the Board of Directors for the Architecture League of New York. Chris Leong, AIA, is the founding partner at Leong Leong, is involved in project-based and strategic advising for the office. Chris is currently the Vice President of Interiors for MillerKnoll. In this new role he leads the design of environments around the world for the iconic brands in its collective–including Herman Miller and Knoll. He has held invited faculty positions at Columbia University GSAPP, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he currently serves on the board of Triple Canopy, a non-profit arts organization in New York.