Claire Weisz is an architect, urbanist, and founding partner of Weisz + Yoes architecture (WXY) along with her partner Mark Yoes. She received her professional degree from University of Toronto and her post professional Master's Degree in Architecture from Yale University. She is the recipient of many academic awards and was a winner of the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Award. She has written and edited architecture and planning studies, including the AD issue "Extreme Site: Greening the Brownfield." She was on the founding board for The Design Trust for Public Space and became its co-executive director. Weisz is a Fellow of both the Urban Design Institute and the Urban Design Forum, and served on the NYSCA Architecture Design Panel, the New York AIA Board of Directors and on design juries both nationally and internationally. She has received research grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She has taught and lectured widely, including Yale University, Columbia University, The Architectural League and at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture and is currently on faculty at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy.
Based in NYC which focuses on innovative approaches to public space, structures and cities. They have received the League Prize and were an Emerging Voice in 2011 from the Architecture League.
