Elsa Leviseur

Elsa Leviseur  is an architect based in Los Angeles, California, born in South Africa in 1932. She earned a B.Arch. from the University of Cape Town School of Architecture in 1954 and an M.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1980. She worked in private practice in South Africa from 1954 to 1959, and in England from 1960 to 1969. She was project manager at The Tanzmann Associates from 1980 to 1983, and since then has been principal of Leviseur Architects in Santa Monica, California.

Leviseur taught at Manchester Polytechnic in England in the early 1990s and at UCLA from 1984 to 1989. She has been a member of the Association for Women in Architecture since 1974, serving as president in 1978. She was a founding member of Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility and has been a member since 1984. Projects in her collection include designs for the Hollywood Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in California.