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"Not Built in a Day," started in 2008, is my personal blog about architecture, urbanism, and the built environment.  I also enjoy reviewing books, films, and exhibitions, and write travel descriptions of my time abroad and in new cities around the US.  My personal design work can be viewed on my Tumblr.



Caroline S. Lebar, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is a licensed architect working in Silicon Valley, with a focus on historic preservation, higher education, and K-12 public schools.  Her work includes architectural design, construction administration, research, and teaching.  She has been working with CAW Architects since 2013, where she has led the design and construction of the major renovation of historic Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University.  Her other projects include renovated library, administration, student services, and arts buildings for East Side Union High School District in San Jose; award-winning historic preservation work for private clients in Palo Alto; and many other projects in the area.  Previously, she worked with C3D Architecture in New York City.

Caroline is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) with a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degree.  Her previous roles include Curator of the GSAPP Slide and Video Library, the school's teaching and research image collection; architecture instructor at Duke University's TIP Summer Studies Program at Rice University; and various other teaching and administrative positions.  She received a dual A.B. from Duke University in Art History, Concentration in Architecture, and in Philosophy, where her undergraduate thesis discussed the urbanism of medieval monastic architecture in the city of Rome.

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