Thomas Luebke

Thomas Luebke has served since 2005 as the Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the federal design review agency for the nation’s capital. An architect with experience in planning and historic preservation in both public and private sectors, Luebke served previously as the City Architect for Alexandria, Virginia, where he was responsible for design review of all new public and large-scale private development projects in the city, including the Potomac Yard and Carlyle districts. Luebke is a Phi Beta Kappa and honors graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and he graduated with a master in architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was a teaching fellow in architectural history. He was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in 2010 and a 2014 recipient of the Likhachev Foundation Cultural Fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia. He served as president of the board of the Washington Architectural Foundation, a non-profit organization of architects serving the Washington, DC community, where he led the transformation of the institution’s mission as the District Architecture Center.