Leland Cott is Adjunct Professor of Urban Design and teaches advanced design studio options.  His recent studios have included: The New Boston Waterfront: Channels & Edges, North Adams MA, A City on the Verge;  Monterrey Mexico, Three Rivers, One City; Kyiv, Ukraine: The New Dnipro Edge: (Re)defining the City.  Professor Cott has recently taught a series of four studios using sites in Havana, Cuba. They include:  Havana Cuba IV, La Rampa:  Envisioning a Twentieth Century Modern Preservation District;   Havana Cuba III, El Malecon;  Havana Cuba II:  El Rio Almendares; and Havana Cuba I:  La Fragua.  Other past studios include: Salem, Massachusetts, Bronzeville III (Chicago), Bronzeville II, Bronzeville I, Housing and Urbanism in Boston. Cott also teaches a seminar: The Design of Housing in the United States.   Cott is the GSD MDes Area Coordinator for the concentration in Housing and Urbanization and the Chair of the Faculty Oversight Committee for the GSD Executive Education Program.  He is a member of the faculty committee of the Harvard David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and is on that center’s Cuba Committee.  He also is a member of the faculty committee of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing.

Cott is a founding principal of Bruner/Cott & Associates in Cambridge, whose designs for housing, large-scale adaptive reuse projects, and buildings for colleges and universities have been widely published and have received over 50 local and national awards, including a P/A design award and a 1997 & 2000 AIA Honor Award. He is a Fellow of the AIA and a former president of the Boston Society of Architects. Cott received his BArch from Pratt Institute and his MAUD from the GSD.